PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly MARCH, 1953 Vol. XXIII. No. 8. fdfd transmission hy post as a newspaper ]

Transforming The Cook Islands Orange Industry

THE citrus industry of the Cook Islands, which supplies New Zealand with oranges, is being extended and reorganised in accordance with modern methods; and, under the direction of Mr. Maurice Baker, head of the Cook Is. Department of Agriculture, the plantations are undergoing a tremendous “face-lift.” This photograph shows a busy scene in a Rarotongan valley, where cultivation, spraying, etc are carried on by trained men.

So much more for your money when you fly by QANTAS Islands Air Services ft Linking over 70 points (listed here) in New Guinea and the Islands with Australia —no change of airline.

Services linking New Guinea wi h Sydney include fast, express Skymaster flights twice weekly via Brisbane; twice weekly DCS flights via North Queensland towns and one by Sandringham fortnightly from Moresby via Cairns and Brisbane. All New Guinea and Papua internal services are linked with the above. Regular services linking Norfolk Island.

Noumea, Vila, Espiritu Santo, Suva with Sydney.

Save days and weeks of travel.

Enjoy de luxe cabin service on all main routes, with experienced stewards or hostesses. Delicious complimentary meals and drinks.

Books, magazines, everything for your comfort. Special facilities for children. 32 years' tropical flying experience is at your command when you fly Qantas. Veteran crews with thousands of flying hours on over 60,000 miles of Qantas routes ensure that your trip will be a truly enjoyable experience.

Qantas Empire Air

(Inc. in Qld.) in association with 8.0.A.C. and

Served By Qantas

Aitape • Aiyura Angoram • Arana Awar • Baiyer River Bans • Bena Bena Brisbane • Buin Buka • Bulolo Cairns • Chimbu Cooktown • Daru D’jmpu • Esa'ala Espiritu Santo Finschhafen Garaina • Garoka Gusap * Honiara inus • Jacquinot Bay Kaiapit • Kainantu Kavienq • Kerema Kerowagl • Kieta Kikori • Kup • Lae Lake Kutubu Lake Murray Lindenhafen * Losuicr Madang • Manus Maprik • Menyamyc Minj • Moewe Harbour • Mount Hagen • Nadzab Nondugl • Norfolk Is.

Noumea • Ogelbeng Port Moresby Queen Carola Harbour • Rabaul Rockhampton Samarai • Suva Sydney • Talasea Torokina • Vella Lavella Vila • Wdbag Wabamunda • Wana Wau • Wewak Woodlark Island Yandina • Yule Is.

TEAL PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Bank Of New Zealand

Established JB6l—The Dominion’s Largest Banking Business. ank of New Zealand Branches in the Pacific Islands are located at Suva, Lautoka and Labasa, Fiji, and Apia, Samoa. Also Agencies at Nausori and at Marks Street, Suva.

Shipping Time-Tables

There now are comparatively few shiping lines running on regular time-tables i the Pacific Islands. The following timeinies are only approximately correct— ley are subject to much alteration at jort notice:— Sydney-Suva-N. America Canadian-Australasian liner Aorangl 17,500 tons) maintains regular twoonthly sailings—Sydney-Auckland-Suvaonolulu-Vlctorla-Vancouver, and return

Rms Aorangi

yd. , . Feb. 12 Apr. 16 uck. . Feb. 16-17 Apr. 20-21 tva . . Feb. 20 Apr. 24 ’nTu . Feb. 27 May 1 ic. . . Mch. 5 May 7 anc. . Mch. 6-12 May 8-14 ic. . . Mch. 12 May 14 ’nTu . Mch. 19 May 21 iva . . Mch. 28 May 30 uck. . Mch. 31-Apr. 2 June 2-4 yd. . . Apr. 6 June 8 On arrival at Sydney June 8, 1953, jrangi will withdraw from service.

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ery six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbymarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul - .marai-Moresby-Brlsbane-Sydney.

Next departure from Sydney in mid- )ril.

MV Malekula will leave Sydney te in April for Samarai, Rabaul, inus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Samarai d return to Sydney.

Details from Burns Phllp & Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

MV Shansi and MV Sinkiang, modern 3,000 tons vessels, will leave every six weeks approximately (making a threeweekly service): Sydney-Brisbane-Port Moresby-Madang-Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney. Shansi departs next trip end of March; Sinkiang in mid-April.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (G. S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga Motor vessels Tofua and Matua, from New Zealand, serve Suva (Fiji), Nukualofa and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago Pago (American Samoa), Apia (-Western Samoa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any or all of above ports at approx, five weeks Intervals. Matua calls at Wellington and Lyttelton (NZ), Lautoka (Fiji) and supplements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners. 3 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 195 3

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Established Agencies throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

Managing Agents: New Guinea Co., Ltd.

Island Representative: G. D. A. Kent, Rabaul Branch.

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Head Office: GO Hunter St., Sydney.

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Regular Three Weekly Service

To PORT MORESBY, SAMARAI, LAE, MADANG, KAVIENG,

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“Shansi” “Sinkiang”

Agents for PAPUA: Agents for NEW GUINEA: STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD. COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

General Agents: G. S. YUILL & CO. PTY. LTD.

Telephones: BW 2731 BU 6313 (Freight only)

6 Bridge St., Sydney

Cable Address: “YUILL”

Tofua leaves Auckland on next voyage on March 17. April 14, May 12.

Matua scheduled to leave Auckland on April 4, May 2.

Details from Union SS Co.

N. Zealand-Cook Is, The NZ Government’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auckland every month for Rarotonga and other Islands in the lower Cooks, subject to requirements of trade. This vessel carries 30 passengers. Next sailing: Late March.

Pull details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd., which Company acts as Agent for this vessel at some ports.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Malaita will make a round trip at about 8-weeks intervals from Sydney to Lord Howe-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Ports - BSI ports - Bougainville - Rabaul - Samarai-Sydney.

Next sailing from Sydney about early May.

Details from Burns Phllp & Co., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides).

Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route. Details from Messageries Maritimes.

Small motor-ships Polyneslen (Messageries Maritimes) and Neo Hebridais (H.

C. Sleigh. Ltd.) maintain fairly regular service between Noumea and Sydney.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc.

Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, carrying cargo and passengers maintains a regular service between North American ports and French Oceania, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Details from General Steamships Corporation Ltd., 432 California St., San Francisco.

Airways Time-Tables

Trans Pacific Services

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths Thur. and Mon. —Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)- Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattle- Portland.

Sun. and Thur.—Return via same route.

Pri. - Auckland - Nadi - Canton - Honolulu - S. Fran.-Seattle-Los Angeles.

Mon.—Return by same route.

By British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

Wed. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Mon. and first Thur.—Dep. southwards, same route. On second or alternate Thursday, flight commences at S.

Francisco.

Tues.—Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Hon lulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Fri.—Dep. Vancouver and S. alternatively: thence same route Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) Every Friday—Sydney - Auckland - Na (Fiji) -Canton Is. Honolulu-Vancouver Every Frids^y—Return by same route. 4 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Saturdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive; ydney, 7.45 pm Bris., 10.30 pm Iris., 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am (Wed., Sun.) foresby, 7.30 am Lae 8.50 am Connects at Lae with Drover or DC3 ar Bulolo and Wau, (Wed.); and (Sun.) jr Rabaul.

Mon., Fri. (DOS’s) ydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.30 pm risbane, 11.30 pm Rockhampton * Tue., Sat. ockhampton * Townsville, 4.00 am ownsville, 5.00 am Cairns, 6.15 am aims, 7.00 am Cooktown, 7.55 am ooktown, 8.15 am Pt. Moresby, 11.10 am t. Moresby, 11.50 am Lae, 1.15 pm ae (Tue. only), 2.30 pm Madang, 3.45 pm • Optional stop.

SOUTHWARDS Wednesdays (DCS) ladang, 7 am Lae, 8.15 am Wednesdays (DCS) rau, 11.30 am Lae, 12.35 pm Thursday (DCS) ae, 9.00 am Moresby, 10.20 am Monday, Thursday (DCS) i.e. Monday only Rabaul-Moresby and londay and Thursday Moresby-Sydney.) abaul, 7 am Moresby. 10.20 am oresby, 10.50 am Cairns, 2.10 pm lirns, 3.10 pm Towns, 4.30 pm (night stop) owns. (Tues., Fri) 8.15 am Brisbane, 1 pm risbane, 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) le, 10.30 am Moresbv. n.40 am nresby, 12.40 pm Bris., 7.10 pm ris., 8.25 pm Sydney, XI pm NORTHWARDS (Mar. 14, 28, April 11, 25, etc.) rdney, 6.00 am Brisbane, 9.20 am risbane, 10.20 am Cairns, 4.35 pm (Night stop) tirns, 9.30 am Ft. Moresby, 1.20 pm Alt. Sunday) SOUTHWARDS Alt. Fridays (Sandringham). (Mar. 13, 27, April 10, 24, etc.) ;. Moresby, 6.00 am Brisbane, 3.00 pm risbane, 4.00 pm. Sydney, 7.20 pm. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Lae-Mantjs (Dcs)

Every Wednesday. ip. Lae, 8 am; Flnschhaven, Rabaul, Kavleng, Manus (3 pm). ;turns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via Kavieng and Rabaul; optional call at Finschhafen; arr. Lae, 2.45 pm.

MORESBT-DARU (Sandringham) a Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Kikorl. L. Kutubu.—Every alternate Wednesday; returning same day (Mar. 18. Apl. 1, 15, 29.), QRESBY-EAST PAPUA (Sandringham) ternate Monday Dep. Moresby 9 a.m. arr. Samarai 11.00 am March 16, 30; April 13, 27. ternate Tuesday (following day) dep.

Samarai 9.00 a.m. arr. Moresby 11 00 a.m. 5 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1953

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Stay at TUSCULUM in Sydney }rem lly the tU bu S ? M S ‘ t L°*:L, d f light ! ul Ardens, Tusculum Is only flve minutes ISLAND viuttoill ,! oclal 5“ tres of the City. It Is reiowned among service. Write or cable fe™aUo S nl Ul atmosphere - and sl “ cere Personal TUSCULUM PRIVATE HOTEL, 3 Manning Street, Pott’s Point „ Tel.: FL1179. ’

Managing Agents: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., 12 Spring St., Sydney.

Cable address: “Ivan”, Sydney.

Papua-New Britain

(Sandringham) Alt. Mon. (Mar. 23, Apl. 6. 20, etc.) —Pt. Moresby - Samarai - Esa’ala* Losuia, Rabalul.

Alt. Thu. (Mar. 26, Apl, 9. 23.) Rabaul-Esa’ala-Samarai-Pt. Moresby. * Calls Losuia, Esa’ala monthly only.

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

Alt. Tue. (Mar, 24. Apl. 7, 21, etc.) —Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-*Lindenhafen- Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul.

N.B.—The direction of operation changes with each service, i.e., each alternate service operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe Harbour-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul.

New Britain-Bougainville

Alt. Wed. (Mar. 25, Apl. 8. 22, etc.) —Rabaul-Queen Carola Hbr.-Buka- Inus-Kieta-Buin.

Alt. Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-Inus- Buka-*Queen Carola Hbr.-Rabaul. • Optional Stop.

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Native traffic, not recommended for Europeans.

Central Highlands

(Drover) Mondays.—Madang (8 am) to Ooroka, with optional stops at Kainantu, Aiyura, Arena, then returns to Madang arriving 10 am.

Fridays.—Madang (8 am) to Wabag with optional stops at Baiyer R., Mt.

Hagen. Kerowagi. Returns to Madang arriving 10.10 am.

Thursday.—Madang (8 am) to Mt. Hagen.

Returns direct to Madang arriving 10.50 am.

Fridays.—Lae (6.30 am) to Wabag, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arona, Aiyura, Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Kerowagi, Kup, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Ogelbeng, Baiyer R., Wabamunda, Wabag. Return to Lae arriving 6 pm.

LAE-BULOLO -WAU (Drover) Dep. Lae.—Tues., Fri., Sat.—3 pm.

Dep. Wau.—Tues., Fri., Sat.—Direct 1 Lae. Arriving 5.05 pm,

Services By Mandated Airlines

With headquarters at Lae, this compai runs regular services for passenger freight and mails to all New Guin< settlements. 4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin By Netherlands Government, with DCS Weekly service, between Darwin and Blal Also, new KLM weekly service, callii at Biak, on flight between Manila an Australia. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS 3 Flights Every Four Weeks, Mon. (Mar. 16, 30, Apl. 6, 13, 27, etc.), La (dep. 6 am)—Finschhafen Rabaul - Torokina (Bougain.) Vellalavella - Yandina Honiara, BSI (arrivin 4.25 pm).

Tue. (Mar. 17, 31, Apl. 7, 14. 28, etc!

Honiara (dep. 7 am) —Yandina—Vella vella Torokina Rabaul Finsci hafen Lae (arriving 3.15 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

Constellation aircraft dep. Saigon, Feb. I and every 28 days thereafter fc Darwin-Brisbane-Noumea, and retun Australian agents: Messageries Maritime 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Trans Oceanic Airways, with Flyin| boats Eight services per month —every Tuesda and Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters.

Alternate Thursdays (Mar. 26, Apl. 9 2 etc.), returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying Boats: Mar. 17, 31, Apl. 14, I 28, etc.).

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Alt. Tue., 6.30 am Noumea, 3.05 pn (nightstop) j Noumea, Alt. Wed., 8.00 am Vila. 10.35 ar Vila, 12.45 pm Santo, 2.00 pm Santo, Alt. Thu., (fol. day), 6.00 am Vila, 7.15 ai Vila, 8.15 am Noumea. 10.55 at Noumea, 12.30 pm Sydney, 7.30 pns (Additional flights operate subject fl approval of Government concerned.) 1 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva By Qantas with Sandringham Flyings Boats —Weekly.

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By NZ National Airways, with DC3’s indays—From Auckland double service . returning same day. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents on., Wed., Thu., Sun.—Dept. Sydney 12 midnight, arr. 8.30 am following day. ed., Sat, Sun.—Dept. Sydney May 7.30 am, arr., 4 pm. lily—Dept. Auckland 8.30 am, arr. 1.30 pm. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents 'P* Sydney 10.30 pm weekdays, arr. 7.30 am following day. p. Wellington 10.30 am Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., arriving 3.45 pm. 4. Melbourne-Christchurch sman E. Airways, with DC4 Skymaster urs.—Dep. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. Ch ch., 8.15 am next day.

I- —Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., 5.39 pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents. )ep. Auckland Mar. 24, 28, Apl. 5,9, 25.

Leturn to Auckland on following days cept March 30, which leaves an extra hours later).

Depart Arrive :kland, 7.00 am Suva, 2.15 pm a, 8.00 am Auckland, 3.15 pm 16. Fiji-Western Samoa SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

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Apia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva, 4.35 pm Sun. 17. New Zealand-Chatham Is.

During the summer services between Auckland and Waikato Bay.

Chatham Is., via Wellington, will be operated on the following dates:— March 11, April 8, 1953.

Solent flying-boats will leave Auckland on these dates at 3.30 am, arrive Wellington. 5.30 am, dept. Wellington, 7 am, 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Moresby . £46 11 0 £83 10 0 2, 2a.

Lae .. .. 55 7 0 99 13 0 2, 3 Rabaul .. 64 19 0 116 19 0 2, 3 Honiara, ESI .. 80 7 0 144 13 0 5 Vila, N.

Hebrides 46 15 0 80 3 0 9 Noumea, NC . .. 39 8 0 70 19 0 10, 9, 6 Norfolk Is. 25 0 0 45 0 0 8 L. Howe . 10 16 0 21 12 0 •| Nadi (Fiji) . 60 10 0 108 18 0 Suva (Fiji) . 53 3 9 104 14 0 (Continued next page. Col. 2) Keep teeth / sparkling white 'vn'\ z Always use o /V A Sparkling white teeth . . . firm, healthy gums ... a fresh, wholesome mouth . . . those are the benefits when you use IP ANA I Tooth decay and gum troubles have little chance of developing when you clean your teeth with IP AN A directly after eating ... so make ‘ Ipanaafte r-meals your daily rule. Besides, you’ll love IPANA’s fresh, cool flavour.

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Apia 11.55 am Tuesday. Dep. Apia 2.00 am Wednesday. Arr. Aitutaki 7.10 am.

Dep. Aitutaki 9.10 am. Arr. Papeete 1.45 pm. Return by same route every alt. leavlng papecte 730 am .

The next flights leave Auckland March 17, 31, April 14, 28. 19. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, using: 2-engined amphibious Catalinas, run regularly to Koror (Palau). Yap (West Carolines), Truk (Central Carolines), Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) and Saipan (Marianas). Details front Trans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 20. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviland Rapides (Effective December 1) Suva-Nadi & Lautoka and return: Mornings—Daily except Monday and Thursday. Afternoons—Daily except Friday.

Suva-Labasa: Daily.

Labasa-Suva; Daily except Sunday and Thursday.

Nadi & Lautoka to Labasa: Every Sunday.

Labasa to Nadi & Lautoka: Every Wednesday.

Suva-Savusavu; Monday and Thursday., return same day.

Suva-Savu Savu-Labasa Savu Savu-j Suva; Tuesdays.

Approximate Airways Fares The following figures are not guaranteed accurate, but they are approximately correct. Details should be obtained from the Air Company named in the Table.

Unless otherwise indicated, figures are in Australian currency. 8 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Table Single Return No.

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POLYNESIA Oscar Nordman claims that the famous canoe Tainui, which carried a party of Polynesians across uncharted seas to New Zealand, to found the Maori kingdom, actually departed from Papara, Tahiti, from near the spot where his house is built.

Oscar is an enthusiastic historian, but we think he is off the beam here.

Maoriland was colonised frojn the lslands—probably Rarotonga— md that is proved by the language. \ NZ Maon speaks the same anguage as the Cook Islanders, with mly minor difficulties; but he wants i lot of tuition before he can talk vith Tahitians. Cook Islanders can »et an understanding of Tahitian nore quickly—but they are nearer o the Maoris.

The greeting is a good example, fhe Maori says Kia Ora. The Raroonga, Kia Or ana. But the Tahitian Teets you with lorana. The Maori anguage bristles with k’s. There re few, if any, ir. Tahitian. Tahitian ppears to be the mother tongue of 'ook Islanders and Maoris.

We presume the voyagers from )scar’s Papara bay stayed some entunes in the Cooks before poshig on to NZ.

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at stay * m* an Pa P ,-.... «or e/ •*V t he B Suv a , ff ftjif. °' e/ Specially , tr °Pic s . y de s . c- C6l gU2(j s° cial for c« * Ce Ueit for Titers G ~ VICe by t ?*si ne tb ? ir °rn 4f\/ se r trailJ ed j , at ' day, 0/ ' (Pij { lj Va nts. Iad ta n Cleons ’Jn e Hcy) ariff Per ° d Bb fay n%p y h £ ss** ’” SuZ a Cab 'e ZZ"° n ’ lr es S: IN THIS ISSUE: Stalin Dies As Anglo-American Union Takes Shape .. .. 13 Another Beetle in Fiji .. 14, 106 New Copra Price Worth A Million 15 Fiji’s Population at End of 1952 16 RSL President on Failure to Settle NG 16 18 Territories Confer in Noumea 17 Dutch New Guinea’s New Governor .. 17 Great Oil Wealth of Dutch NG 17 Future of the Solomon Islands 19 New Guinea Timber Taxes .. 19 Coronation and Royal Visit .. 20 Solomons New Stamp Designs 23 D. M. Cleland Is New Administrator 25 Should P-NG Natives Go to Coronation 27 Dr. Austin, of Makogai, Retires 28 Red Tonks of the New Hebrides 33 Burdens for BSI Producers .. 37 Official P-NG Attitude to Recruiters 39 Types of Houses for P-NG . . 42 G. &E. Natives Taxed in Copra 43 Biak, Wartime Base, Becomes Airways Town 45 33 per cent. Increase in Norfolk Is. Taxes 46 Mangola Off Reef. 47 Less Cash for Native Workers In P-NG 48 P-NG Copra, Rubber to Be Graded . . 50 Fiji - Samoa Banana Situation 51, 59 Peregrinating Nuisance—UNO Mission in Pacific 55 Tribute to Late E. Leetag .. 55 NG’s Flying Doctor Killed in Crash 62 Fiji Prepares for Royal Occasions 63

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Film Music on Fiji Location —A Sucker from Tahiti —A Simple Matter of Evidence — Modern Methods in Hydrographic Survey—Tropicalities —Paul Mason, of Inus—Some Useful Recipes 65, 72 Pacific Nature Notes 74 News of Small Ships and Yachts 77 Dutch New Guinea Governor Resigns .. 84 Panua Looks Fine to MRA Delegates 87 Papua’s New Cutch Industry 88 New Wharves, Airfields in P-NG 89 Canberra Causes Delay in P-NG Public Works .. ~ 90 Louisiade Murders—Memories of Fred Bunting 91 Sedgers-Salemann Wedding .. 97 Morinda Leaves for Japan .. 99 Gold Search in Territories .. 102 Famous Characters of Tahiti 103 Rhino Beetle Reaches Fiji 14, 106 OBITUARY: Mrs. A. T. Davidson; Mr. Ralph Mr.

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Joseph Bray; Mrs. George; Mr. Topu Isaia; Mr. Tuaine Nicholas; Mrs. Duncan Campbell 107, 117 Transient Natives Under Control in P-NG 112 Use of Fiji Native-Owned Land 114 Baffling Problem: Fiji-Indian Population 15, 125 Riot on Vanikoro 133 12 march. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Stalin Dies As Anglo- American Union Takes Shape rHE kind of silliness which governs the popular outlook on international affairs was llustrated in Sydney when the tussian dictator died on March 7. ’he Daily Telegraph, with more npulsiveness than sense, prepared news-poster: “Stalin Dead— fooray”. When the printing-house taff saw this, they refused to prouce the poster. The editors— uite rightly—said they would not e dictated to by the typographers: nd there was a strike. The poster id not appear: “Joe’s” passing was nnounced in more sober fashion.

Like millions of others, the Daily 'elegraph folk had got Stalin comletely out of focus. He was neither n omnipotent monstrosity nor a sader to be revered. He was simply n extremely unpleasant incident i the tortured world produced bv vo World Wars.

The colossal waste of the two Tars threw the world’s economic astern out of joint. Humanity ceded three or four decades of Bace and security and industry to ;store the losses. The Communists ere clever enough to seize this icasion to block peace, and keep le world poor and bad-tempered, talm was merely the head of the [uscovite conspiracy against civiliition. On his merits, he has no [ace in history— except that, as a ass murderer, he out-Hitlered itler.

The Muscovite Reds, through high-pressure propaganda, tried to place him amongst the Red immortals, like Marx and Lenin. But Stalin did not have that kind of brain. H. G. Wells dismissed him contemptuously as a “plodder”. He had the cunning of the fox—which he somehow resembled—and the tenacity of a bulldog. When Lenin was fading out, Stalin made up his mind to be dictator; and no consideration of justice, mercy or decency was allowed to stand in his way. He attained unchallenged power.

He was the outstanding apostle of Totalitarianism. The State (in his case, the Communist Party) must be supreme in every department of human life. Every vestige of individualism must be beaten into the ground. Every man and woman cherishing such things as moral law, personal obligation, human freedom, must be destroyed.

All this, for the aggrandisement and enthronement of the Red hierarchy.

With patience and ruthlessness almost beyond belief, this evil man and his gang planned to use the power of their enslaved Russia and her satellites for the overthrow of Western civilisation. While the war-weary Allies, in 1945-6, disarmed and dissipated their enormous strength, the Reds retained their military organisation complete, and staged the Cold War Beyond any doubt, they would have hurled themselves upon the Western nations In 1948-49, had they not feared the atom bomb which America developed.

So they stepped up the Cold War —the “communisation” of Asia; the organisation of minor wars (Korea, Indo-China, Malaya) where we might dissipate our strength; the deep penetration of our politicoeconomic structure by Red fifthcolumnists; the promotion of international and industrial unrest by every conceivable means. They have had great success. As the director of the Cold War, Mr. Stalin deserved all the leather medals which his worshippers could pin upon his paunchy little person.

But Stalin had reached the peak of his success. He could no longer avoid either Hot War, or loss of face. Since 1948, the Western world has slowly and reluctantly abandoned the welter of disarmament, UNO, brotherhood-ofman, Socialist administration, and similarly unpractical idealisms, and has come back to realities.

In 1945, the United States and the British Commonwealth controlled the world (including the Muscovite set-up) and, for the sake of humanity, the union should have policed the world for a decade or two. But we abandoned our position to Russia. Now, after seven years of disillusionment, we are returning to the situation of 1945. The Western nations have re-armed; a new and realistic and strong Government has taken charge of United States; Churchill and Eisenhower have been in close conference; and even as this is written Eden and Butler, Britain’s two chief men next to the Prime

Minister are in Washington, shapimr the ’ Anglo-American union of the future The death of Stalin came most’ opportunely, for Stalin.

But the crisis is not past. On the contrary it may be only now develoning There was no successor for Stalin The half-dozen who have assumed command, under the nominal leadership of the undistinguished Malenkov, will almost certainly begin fighting among themselves for power.

There is grave restlessness throughout all the Curtain countries.

By a strange chance, the Red head of Czechslovakia died within a week of Stalin, and the Red head of Eastern Germany is dying. There is unrest in most of the countries of Southern Asia and Middle East.

Tito, head of Yugoslavia (Communist but anti-Moscow), is being royally entertained in London.

Russian fighters, along the Iron Curtain frontiers, have shot down three Anglo-American planes, without provocation. General Sir William Slim, about to step on a ship, to assume the Governor- Generalship of Australia, has been called suddenly to the Middle East, where he is an expert on political and military affairs.

These seemingly disconnected incidents are all part of a pattern.

The international tension is so great that it must soon lead to something, Can the new set-up in Moscow— even if it wished it—put into reverse the enormous anti-Western organisation which Stalin created and geared? We should soon know. ]i/rE AN WHILE, Moscow’s inter- Ifl national brew bubbles furiously and noisily in Asia—too close to our northwest horizon for comfort. Even if the Western nations, led by an Anglo-American Union, can display enough teeth to keep the Red wolves away, there will be danger almost immeasurable in Asia for all the countries of the South Pacific. There are more than one thousand millions of people— the majority of them hungry—in Asia. There is room and sustenance for a large proportion of them in the South Pacific. There is no possibility of peace while that setup remains.

Between Southern Asia and empty Australia there is a series of archipelagoes, Indonesia. Until World War 11, our friends the Dutch were in control of Indonesia, During the war, the Japanese took over, and allowed Indonesian nationalism to develop. After the war, Socialist fanatics (Australia’s Dr. Evatt and the Australian Communist wharf-workers union in the lead) prevented the Dutch from returning to Indonesia, and set up the Indonesian Republic, In accordance with the forecast we made repeatedly in 1946-50, the Indonesian Republic now is in a condition of increasing collapse— moral, political and economic—and, if it is left alone, it almost certainly will be taken over soon by a Cornmunist organisation. Thus—as the map too plainly shows—there will be provided a row of Red steppingstones from Red Asia into the heart of the South Pacific. The danger to the South Pacific cannot be exaggerated.

Stalin, as one of the phenomena of the first half of the twentieth century, gives point to the halfcentury’s outstanding lesson: If a nation, or a combination of nations, wants peace and security, so as to give its people a real chance to live in comfort and enjoy cultural progress, it must go everlastingly armed. The tyrants of the world— to the ranks of whom, in this lifetime, we have added Kaiser Wilhelm, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin— have shown us again and again that, until nature changes, we can place no trust in the “brotherhood of man”. Surely, let us gaze towards the stars; but, if we would be free men, let us keep the sword sharp and very close to a hand trained to use it.

Another Beetle In Fiji (See article on page 106) SUVA, Mar. 9.

FIJI’S second live rhinoceros beetle was found by a Fijian in his house at Suvavou, near Suva, and it has led to a thorough ransacking of the area at the head of Suva Harbour by a team organised by the Agriculture Department.

The beetle (another female) was found by Sitiveni Tegu who —like the Fijian stevedore who recognised the first beetle aboard the ship Thorsisle a fortnight earlier— promptly took it to the experts.

The whole Suvavou-Lami area is being thoroughly searched for beetles or their grubs, and likely breeding-places are being destroyed.

A large part of the Suva population of all races has become beetleconscious. It is recognised that it would be a major disaster for Fiji if the “devastating pest” (an official phrase) should gain a foothold.

How did the Suvavou beetle arrive? One theory is that a ship from Samoa or Tonga required to move out to the stream at sunset may have gone too close to the shore at the head of the harbour The fact that two beetles, both capable of introducing the pest to Fiji, have been found here * within a few weeks, and obviously brought by ships from Samoa or Tonga, will almost certainly cause further restrictions to be imposed on traffic between those countries and Fiji, The incident is a good example of the dangers, in the shape of pests and diseases, that attend the introduction of faster transport between the Islands.

This photograph was taken at the Bowlers Ball, at Vatukoula, Fiji’s goldmining town, on New Year’s Eve. In the back row are Mr. Pat Clay, CSR overseer at Tavua; Mrs. Clay; Mr. C. Thoma, Morris Hedstrom manager at Tavua; Superintendent Jock Milne. SITTING: Mrs. Jim Turner; Mr. Turner (manager of Tavua Hotel); Mrs. Milne. Mr. Thomas is wearing the “lucky hat” which won him a bottle reputed to contain whisky.

A Ball At Vatukoula, Fiji

14 March, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

New MOF Copra Price Means Million Pounds for S. Pacific AFTER strong representations had been made to the British Ministry of Food and certain high personages of the British Government, by representatives of the Governments of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the British Western Pacific Islands, it was announced on February 20 that the copra prices which had ruled i- Fapua-New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa and the Cook Islands, in 1952 would be the official MOF price for 1953.

As explained in the PIM in recent months, the British MOF planned to reduce the 1952 price for 1953 by 10 per cent, (the full amount allowed under the 9-years contract). But the South Pacific Governments challenged the data upon which the MOF officials tried to act, and eventually the latter’s plan was set aside.

The world price was down below ;he MOF price during the middle nonths of 1952; but the world igure was back, and well above the MOF price, at the end of the year, ind in January and February.

The London quotation for Straits *;MS on February 20 was £B6 Stg. if, European ports, which is about :7 higher than the £65 Stg. fob, >aid for S. Pacific Copra.

The retention of the 1952 price in 953 will be worth the better part if £1,000,000 Australian to the South ’acific British and Commonwealth territories. But, if the copra maret’s tendency in the future is own ward, it will mean much more han that. The price for any ene ear cannot fall more than 10 per ent. of the price in the preceding ear.

The announcements in the varius centres have been as follows: PAFUA-NEW GUINEA—To be 55 Stg per ton, fob, Port Moresby— hich gives the producers the same rice as in 1952. It was pointed out tncially that a reduction of 10 per mt. in price, on an estimated prouction of 85,000 tons, would have ust nt a IOSS in 1953 ° f £6B °’ ooo FIJI—MOF price to be £65 tg. per ton, fob. Prices to proacers, at Suva and Levuka: Plan- Ltmn grade, £656/5/6 Fijian; FMS le ! ser Sidings, from >6/15/- down to £62/15/-.

W. SAMOA—MOF price, £65 Stg 5r ton, fob. Rates to producers, the ime as 1952.

SOLOMONS—The previous anouncement of a 10 per cent, cut is ithdrawn, and prices now based i the 1952 MOF rate of £65 Stg !r ton , fob. Present rates to producers are to be Honiara, £62/3/4 Aust.; Tulagi and Yandina, £63/3/4 Gizo, £62/18/4. Various adjustments in handling, etc., have brought about a reduction of 11/8 per ton <pn the 1952 price; and a further adjustment is forecast owing to MOF insistence on FMS instead of smoke-dried.

P-NG Copra on Free Market VfTHEN it was found recently that ?▼ 5,500 tons of Papua-New Guinea copra was not wanted by the British Ministry of Food, under its contract, the P-NG Copra Marketing Board sold it to Sweden at £74 Stg. per ton f.o.b. (about equal to the current European price of £B6 c.i.f.), As the MOF contract price is £65 Stg, per ton f.0.b., this means an improved return on the 5,500 tons of no less than £60,000 Aust.

It is a good illustration for South Pacific planters of the difference between the MOF price (guaranteed for nine years) and the world price, subject to constant fluctuation. For the greater part of the period since the introduction of the MOF contract, the world price has been at least that much better than the MOF price.

Stabilisation Fund IT was announced during the month that the New Guinea Planters Association now is instructing counsel regarding steps to be taken to compel the Australian Government to distribute, to copra producers, the Stabilisation Fund, built up over the past six years by compulsory deductions from amounts due to producers, and believed now to be over £1,500,000.

Oil Search in Papua The Omatl test drill in Papua, where the search for oil continues, now is down to nearly 13,000 feet (2?. miles). The aerial magnetometer survey of Southwest Papua (also part of the oil search) is complete. Twenty-five thousand square miles were surveyed in two months.

Tonga’s Queen Shook Hands 1,000 Times 1N accordance with an old Tonga custom, the flagstaff at Queen Salote’s new Auckland home was dedicated at a short ceremony on February 14.

A large gathering of Tonean e p^e d nt o rthfc C e^ro„f U S T n o d ga he abr o o y ad The" The Sinrtiv W f!n Zea J and s “2™ y ’ en rou<;e to the Coronation, reu , ni £ ns at the garden party given at her residence in Auckland by Queen Salote. Among the 500 guests was Mr - F - T - Goedicke (who 2 0w . has the old Dutch title of Count van Asten), who resides now A uc^an d, but who lived in Tonga 3%™* §gS* Slated 6 that the Queen, who punctiliously greeted each arriving and departing guest must have shaken hands 1,000 times.

Queen Salote, of Tonga, departs from Auckland in April per liner Rangiloto to attend the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. This photo was taken as the Queen, accompanied by her second son, Prince Tu’ipelehake. and his wife Princess Melena’ite, left Auckland for Tonga in February. The Queen will return in March. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

• 1951 1952 Fijians .. ,. 132,889 135,887 Indians . . 143,332 148,882 Europeans .. 6,227 7,980 Part-Europ. 7,083 7,298 Chinese .. .. 3,581 3,719 Islanders 4,400 4,498 Totals . .. 301,959 312,678 Birthrate Deathrate per thou. per thou.

Fijians, 1931 .. 35.3 22.2 Indians, 1931 .. 33.4 10.1 Fijians, 1937 . . 34.4 21.3 Indians, 1937 .. 37.5 10.0 Fijians, 1948 .. 36.3 14.5 Indians, 1948 .. 46.3 9.0 Fijians, 1952 .. 36.6 14.7 Indians, 1952 .. 44.6 8,9 Fiji’s Population Problem Further Indian Gains Estimates of the population of Fiji, as on December 31, in the last two years, show the following: There were 6,650 Indian births, giving a birth rate of 44.69 per thousand. There were 4,983 Fijian births, or 36.67 per thousand. There were 2,004 Fijian deaths (a rate of 14.75 per thousand) and 1,325 Indian deaths (a rate of 8.9 per thousand).

EDITORIAL NOTE —Despite all the talk, the speed at which the Indians are increasing their numbers, over the total of all other communities, is the outstanding sociological fact in Fiji. The following figures are from official records: Two or three years have passed since the then Governor of Fiji told the Indians bluntly that, if a population problem of first importance was to be avoided, the natural increase of the Indians must fall.

Since then, the rate has fallen by 2 per thousand.

Sir Alport Barker

Poposes To

Reside In N. Zealand

THE well-known former Mayor of Suva, and proprietor and editor for many years of The Fiji Times, Sir Alport Barker (who is about to depart for Hawaii, to attend a Tourist and Travel Conference on behalf of Fiji) has indicated that he will shortly retire from the Colony, and make his permanent residence in New Zealand. Sir Alport was married in December in Auckland, and the second Lady Barker will accompany him to Honolulu.

Sir Alport gave very many years of public service to the Colony, in the Legislative Council and in the municipality, and was a tireless worker in the many causes which he espoused. His place in Suva will be hard to fill.

Storms Disrupt Islands’

Food Supplies

From Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, Mar. 6.

A NORTH-WESTERLY storm, with winds to gale force and heavy seas, hit the BSI Protectorate early in March.

Little damage was done in most areas, but the small Polynesian island of Sikaiana, which suffered badly in a similar storm early in 1952, was again battered. Last year’s storm resulted in a serious famine on the island before relief supplies could be landed. This year it is believed that half the bananas and manioc have been destroyed and most of the Islanders’ efforts to restore their gardens have been nullified.

The District Commissioner Eastern Solomons (Mr. R. Davies), weatherbound in Betua at Vanikoro, is leaving for Sikaiana as soon as possible with two tons of rice borrowed from the Vanikoro Timber Co.

With the co-operation of the Government of Fiji, five tons of rice, five tons of ration biscuits, taro and coconuts have been purchased in Suva, and will be loaded in M.V. Kurimarau which is soon due to leave Suva. She will call at Vila, New Hebrides, to embark the High Commissioner (Mr.

R. C. S. Stanley) and he may call at Sikaiana, en route to Honiara, to land supplies.

It is thought a cyclone centred near Rennell and Bellona may have caused damage in those Islands also.

The Assistant Editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Mrs.

Judy Tudor, arrives in Rabaul by Maiaita at the end of March and will visit most centres of Papua-New Guinea during April.

London Win For Peter

YEOMANS WHEN the competition for decorating Australia House in London on Coronation Day was finally judged, it was found that the winning design was the work of Mr. Peter Yeomans,, who was the first European baby born in Salamaua, New Guinea, 21 years ago. Peter, son of Mr. Tom Yeomans, Morobe goldfields pioneer (he went in there in 1927) has been in Europe studying art, and is now on his way to the University of Michigan, USA, to take a course in architecture.

Under Peter Yeoman’s plan of decoration each of the pillars in Australia House will carry the crest of a State; and included among the pillars is one specially for Papua- New Guinea, the young artist’s own country.

Mr. Whittaker Speaks Out Where Are the Promised Soldier Settlements?

THE hard-fighting President of the New Guinea Returned Servicemen’s League, Mr.

George Whittaker, may not always be right; but at least he stands to his guns, and the objects of his attacks cannot ignore him.

Addressing the third annual congress of his League in Lae on March 8, Mr. Whittaker pointedly described the frustration which had attended all the League’s efforts to get on with the settlement of ex-servicemen in P-NG.

He reminded us that, again and again, the Canberra Government and the Territories Minister had promised that land and finance would be made available to exservicemen for cocoa-growing and other industries on an organised plan; but nothing had been done.

There was no land and—although Australia could make a gift of £35 millions to Southeast Asia —there was no finance.

As an instance of official indifference he cited the fact that eight years elapsed before the Government did anything official to restore the land titles destroyed in the invasion—and even now progress was very slow.

He referred scathingly to the “disgraceful shacks” which still were made to serve as hospitals in Lae, Wewak and Port Moresby.

Mr. Whittaker’s address covered a wide field; and, in relation to settlement, development and native policy, some of his charges were startling. Some critics said his statements w§re “over-coloured”; but he was enthusiastically supported by most of his members, and by League officials who commented in Australia.

As there is a suspicion that Canberra and its team of planners are much too preoccupied with native welfare, the voice of our RSL President is a welcome sound to many of us.— Special Correspondent.

Pacific Islands Society

Films in colour, depicting scenes in the Highlands of New Guinea, including the experimental sheep station were shown to members of the Pacific Islands Society in Sydney in February by Mr. F. J.

Salisbury.

An address given recently by Mr.

R. W. Robson to members of the Royal Empire Society, entitled “The present influence of the British Commonwealth countries in the South Pacific,” will be repeated to members of the Pacific Islands Society, on March 26. 16 MARCH. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

18 Territories To Confer In Noumea

Special Plane to Gather 60 Native Delegates OVER 60 delegates, representing 18 Pacific Islands Territories, will assemble at Noumea on &pril 16, for the Second South Pacific Conference, at the headluarters of the South Pacific Comnission. The Conference is a direct ink between the Commission and he Islands peoples it seeks to serve.

The Conference will last about ;en days and will be under the hairmanship of M. Lassalle-Sere Senior Commissioner for France on he SPC).

SPC Commissioners from the six nember Governments (Australia, ''ranee, the Netherlands, New Zeaand, Britain and USA) will attend is observers until April 25, when he Commission’s Eleventh Session fill open.

Conference delegates, mostly lative Islanders, will discuss prolems common to all Pacific Ternaries, such as the conservation and nprovement of land and sea reaurces, the relation of population a resources, marketing problems, be role of women and women’s rganisations in the community. and the health education of Islanders.

Transport to Commission headquarters of delegates—who in many cases will travel over thousands of miles of ocean—and provision of accommodation have involved months of planning by the Secretariat.

Two main assembly points for transport have been established — at Sydney and a Nadi (Fiji). On April 14, a DC6 air-liner will leave Mascot airport, Sydney, for Noumea, carrying delegations from Papua and New Guinea, Solomons, Nauru, and possibly Guam and the Territory of Micronesia, as well as Mr.

H. E. Maude (the Commission’s executive officer for Social Development, who is stationed in Sydney) and some of his staff.

The aircraft will fly on from Noumea to Fiji the same day, and return the following morning with the delegates from French Oceania, Cook Islands, American and Western Samoa, Niue, Tonga, Fiji and Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

The Oil Wealth Of Dutch New Guinea

From Our Own Correspondent HOLLANDIA, March 2. )N the most westerly corner of the Vogelkop Area, in Dutch New Guinea, lies a small town : great importance: Sorong.

Sorong, also called “the oil town,” ot long ago was only a small misonary outpost. Now, it is one of le most important ports of D-NG, ‘cause from there flows the “black )ld” (oil) out of heavily-jungled rritory. For the time being Sorong the only important exporting wn in D-NG.

The company which brought Drong to its new importance is ie Netherlands New Guinea Petroam Company, a trust formed by ree international oil companies.

One of the first steps taken by is company was to make thousands aerial photographs of their conssion. That was in 1935. A little ore than a year later, at Klamono. e first well was giving up its lack gold.” By now, the Klamono ;ld has a production of some 750 ns of oil per day.

Because the Klamono wells are about 30 miles’ distance from the rt of Sorong, the Co, constructed road between the two places, png which a pipe-line for oil was id, to pump the oil to the docks.

The Co. now has two more new l-wells in eastern Vogelkop: at asian and at Mogoi.

However, millions upon millions of guilders have had to be and are still being invested in the concession; and these expenses can only be recovered after years of fruitful exploitation.

It is said that Dutch-New Guinea possesses more oil than Borneo and Sumatra (in the Indonesian archipelago) put together. Although this has still to be proved, it nevertheless is clear that, because of the urgent need for oil in this highly mechanised world, this part of New Guinea is likely to take an important place among the oil-producing areas of the world.

Papuan Rubber Producers

Koitaki Para Rubber

ESTATES LTD. (20 miles from Port Moresby) has paid an unchanged interim dividend of 121% for the half-year to 31/12/52, despite a decrease in profits.

Sangara Holdings Ltd. has been formed in Sydney, with £220,000 ordinary capital and £BO,OOO of 6 per cent, prefs., to take over the capital of Sangara Rubber Plantations Ltd Sangara Cocoa Plantations Ltd. and Lamington Development Co., which owns a store and sawmill. Most of the properties are in North-east Papua.

Dr. Van Baal New

Governor Of

Dutch New Guinea

DR. JAN VAN BAAL, who formerly held high posts in Education and Native Affairs in Dutch New Guinea, has been appointed Governor of that Territory, in succession to Mr. van Waardenburg.

Dr. van Baal is well-known in the South Pacific. He has been closely associated with the work of the South Pacific Commission and the Pacific Science Congress, and he has been a frequent visitor to Australia. He has represented the Netherlands at UNO conferences, and was elected a member of the Netherlands Parliament last September. He will take over at Hollandia on April 1.

Famous School For

FIJI BOYS

Is Re-Established

SUVA, March 8 BUILT at a cost of £158,000, of which the United Kingdom provided £lOO,OOO from Colonial Development and Welfare funds, the new Queen Victoria School was opened by the Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Garvey) on March 5.

The original QV School was opened at. Nasinu, near Suva, in 1907, most of the buildings being paid for by the Fijians themselves.

It became Fiji’s foremost school, but in 1941 it was turned into an Army hospital. Then it became the Teachers’ Training College; while QV School remained exiled in deplorable conditions at Nanukuloa, near Viti Levu Bay.

The new school is at Matavatucou, on the Tailevu coast, 45 miles north of Suva. Here 205 acres of land, in a setting of unspoiled natural beauty, were given by Sir Henry Scott. The school buildings, planned to accommodate 180 Pijian boys, are spacious, well-equipped and modern in every detail.

Cattle to be Dipped in Tahiti RECENTLY the last of a series of cattle dips was completed in Tahiti. The Governor decreed, on the advice of his Department of Agriculture, that a cattle dip be established in each District and that every beast be dipped twice per month. Last dip completed was on Mr. O. Nordman’s property at Papara. 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH. 1953

Passengers On March Bulolo To N. Guinea

During the absence of Monsieur Biesel, chief of police in French Oceania, at present on holiday overseas, Monsieur Raoul Tessier, has been appointed by Governor Petitbon to take charge of the police department.

Tribute To

MR. E. A. JAMES A WARM tribute of praise and gratitude was paid to Mr. E. A.

James, chairman of the Port Moresby Advisory Council, when that body held its last meeting un-s der the old constitution on February 24. Members said he always had been a fair and broadminded chair] man, and had given a great deal of personal time and professional skill in assisting the Administration in the good government of the town; Mr. James said he felt that the Council had done good work in pre-i paring the way for local self] government in Papua-New Guinea Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

IT was calamity, calamity all the way for South Pacific copra producers—and products of most tropical products—in March, 1933.

Copra had hit a new low in London —£ll/12/6 per ton; and rubber was 4id for para and 2ld for plantation smoked. But hang on, we advised producers. Shrewd advisers saw signs of a recovery late in 1933, and, maybe by way of helping out povertystricken planters, we gave a whole page of recipes for cooking pawpaw in various ways. In 1933, too, mining was the thing. The NG goldfields were booming and prospectors were busy in Guadalcanal, New Caledonia and Fiji. Here are some other extracts from our issue of March, 1933: A ballot had been held for nine claims at Edie Creek, NG (the area had been the former Administration Reserve); 1,473 (about half the European population) had entered for it 'and the lucky nine were: Lot 1 (“the jewel-box”), W. A. Mac- Gregor; Lot 2, S. W. Marshall; Lot 3, R. F. C. Struben; Lot 4, J. A. Symes; Lot 5, Mrs. V. M. Giblin; Lot 6, Mrs. H. M.

Rex; Lot 7, J. C. Wauchope; Lot 8, N. B.

Spence; Lot 9, A. R. Rankin. Some of the lucky winners are now dead; some are still in NG; what of the others? * * ♦ We pleaded for a revision of the hours of work for Europeans and natives in the Islands, saying, “A matter that should receive serious consideration is the long hours during which white people work.

In some Islands, stores open at 7 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. ... it is pitiful to see natives work in the sup in the shops during these hours”. We suggested that it would be better to work from 5 30 a.m. to 10 30 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. However, no one seems to have taken notice of us—in the islands they are still working “long” hours. * * * The following men, most of them from Rabaul district, no doubt to the chagrin of outpost dwellers, had been appointed to New Guinea’s first Legislative Council: J. C. Mullaly, planter of Rabaul; V. C.

Pratt, planter of Kokopo; W. E. Grose, planter of Kavieng; N. P. Neal, mine manager of Edie Creek; Alan McLennan solicitor of Rabaul; B. B. Perriman, companj manager of Rabaul; and R. L. Clark, company manager of Rabaul. * * * Papuan rubber planters had been go! out of their difficulties by the imposttioi of an Australian Customs duty of 4d pel pound on their rubber, the monej collected (about £37,(100 per annum) t< be returned to the growers as a grant' in-aid. Formerly only foreign rubber hac been subject to Australian import due; and this, in its day, had been designed to assist the Papuan planters. Australiai manufacturers had wanted all imporl taxes removed but the Australian ment stood to lose £500,000 in revenue il this were done. By putting 4d per pounc duty on Papuan rubber the Government retained its half million, the planters got what they wanted, and the theory wai that the manufacturers would be ni worse off, as the taxpayer, in the ultimati analysis, would be the goat who wouli have to pay the 4d. Editorially wi called it “political trickery”. * * * Another import duty of 4d per pound this time on butter afid in Fiji, wai assisting that Colony, from its 8,000 acre of dairy land, to produce from threi butter factories sufficient butter to suppl; the entire wants of Fiji and have, h 1933, an exportable surplus of 350,0« pounds valued at £ll,OOO. * * * To the indignation of BSI Europeai residents, District Officer Filose, of Ysabe Island, had been prosecuted on 19 charge: of “procuring his police boys to atta'cl natives” and had been fined £5 oi one charge and 10/- on each of th( others. It was said that the District Officer was a most respected officer ani that even the natives of the district, witl the exception of a few rogues, weri petitioning in his favour. * * * “The native coffee plantation and rio< fields at Sangara and on the mainland behind Yule Island, Papua, are showing great promise . . The rice harvest (behind Yule) this year has exceeded previous years and the natives whfl previously saw work on the plantation! in the light of forced labour, recognise ai last the great advantages they may gain from the industry.”

Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wauchope, who have been well-known in Papua-New Guinea for the past 30 years and are now residents of Sydney, were off to relieve the manager of their plantation, Awar, neair Madang.

Mr. L. D. Moloney, of Sangara Rubber Co., Port Moresby, Papua, returning after leave in Australia.

Mrs. J. F. X. Brown, returning to her home in New Guinea after holidaying with her daughter at Surfers Paradise, Queensland.

Mr. Pat Ryan, of Mandated Airlines, Lae, New Guinea, was returning after leave in Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. Col. Dun, of Port Moresby, Papua, on their way home after honeymooning in NSW. 18 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Australia'S New

VAXES

W N. Guinea Timber

TJTIL the end of 1952, timber from Papua-New Guinea went into Australia duty-free. Now, ce a particular bylaw expired, it being taxed at from 6/- to 12/- • 100 super feet. 7he Wau community of New inea is much interested in the relopment of the New timber instry, and Australia’s latest imlition has been received with onishment and resentment. The tu Advisory Council is taking ps to bring the matter before Administrator and Minister. t is a good example of the lack coordination in Australian icies relating to the encourage- Qt of new industries in Papuaw Guinea. Yet the Australian partment of Territories is reed to be more or less over-run h coordinators and planners.

Imbers of similar type, from v Zealand, are admitted to Auslia, duty-free.

Nders Wanted For

Timber East Of Lae

QUEENSLAND timber firm, which tendered successfulyl in 1951 for the right to take timber a 21,000 acres area east of Lae, not able to complete the const. he Department of Territories r is seeking tenders again for timber lease. They say that lin the area there are teak, rosed, cedar, walnut and anisoptera pale yellow weed suitable for ly purposes)—an estimated total f 0,000,000 super feet, tie officials’ optimism in relation lie area will have to be justified, the successful tenderer will 3 to pay heavy royalties on >er taken out, and instal a sawto cut at least a million super a year. ell-known old-timer, ‘Skipper”

L Markham, formerly of Mar- Lagoon, Solomon Islands, and rict Commissioner at Christ- Island during World War H, m in poor health, and is mostly ined to bed. He now resides 0 St. Davids Road, Haberfield, ley. le Superior-General of the Ist Brothers, Very Rev. Brother lida, accompanied by Assistant sral Rev. Brother Justinian, is •resent on an official visit, inting the Schools conducted by Order, in Fiji, Western Samoa New Caledonia.

Future Of The Solomon Islands

New High Commissioner’s Comprehensive Review ANEW regime in the British Solomon Islands—for long called the "Cinderella of the Pacific” —was introduced on February 22, when the new High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Mr.

R. C. S. Stanley, who has made Honiara, in the Solomons, the headquarters of his Commission), met the members of the BSI Advisory Council. In a long address, His Excellency dealt exhaustively with the conditions of government, trading, industry, labour, transport, etc., in the Solomons. The following is a summary of some of the more important sections of his address: The High Commissioner welcomed four new members Chief Secretary Minnitt, Financial Secretary Macleod-Smith, Attorney-General Dalton and Native Member Salana Ga’a, of Areo, in Malaita.

In order to make room on the Council for the three new official members, Messrs. Charles, Richardson and Shearwin had resigned.

The appointment of Salana Ga’a is the outcome of Mr. Stanley’s visit to Malaita last September and his meeting with leaders of the "Marching Rule” movement. Mr.

Stanley then proposed that a native council, to be called the Malaita Council, be set up, representative of all the people of the Island and not just some sections.

The Malaita people were agreeable but asked that they be allowed to choose a leader to be their "big man.”

This Mr. Stanley agreed to, on condition that the native leader recognised Mr. Stanley’s authority, worked with the local District Commissioner for the good of the people, and obeyed the laws of the Protectorate. Mr. Stanley further undertook that if the Council desired it, their chosen leader would become a member of the BSIP Advisory Council.

That is how Salana Ga’a, who was duly chosen as Malaita’s "big man,” now has a seat on the Advisory Council in Honiara.

Position Of “Trade

SCHEME”

The Government Trade Scheme (of the purposes of which there had been some misunderstanding in certain circles) set up after the war, at a time when private trading was virtually non-existent, in order to provide an essential and very urgent need.

It was never, as far as he was aware, the desire of Government to undertake trading as a permanent part of its normal activities; still less was it contemplated that there should be any discouragement of legitimate private enterprise.

“Trade is the economic life blood of the community and it flows most freely when it is left without transfusions from a bureaucratic body— though such operations may occasionally be necessary, as in this case, to save the life of the patient.

“I cannot to-day speculate upon the form which the future activities of the Scheme might take, or the question of the continuing need for its existence, because these matters are still under review. But I want to assure all who may feel any doubt upon the subject that it is the Government’s desire to encourage and stimulate free enterprise and healthy competition in these islands, remembering always its duty to ensure that no section of the community is neglected or unfairly treated. In the meantime, explicit instructions have been issued to ensure that the Trade Scheme conducts its business on a purely commercial basis.”

Labour And Industry

At the end of 1952, a total of 4,097 Solomon Islanders were employed throughout the British Solomon Islands Protectorate —2,165 of them in the copra industry. Demand for labour still exceeds supply in BSI, and Malaita is still the chief area of recruitment—although licenced recruiters obtained some labour from Tikopia and other outlying islands during 1952 and so relieved the labour shortage to an extent.

The Chief Forestry Officer who was appointed to the BSIP Government, and who arrived in Honiara last October, will shortly be joined by a second officer, who will probably be posted to Vanikoro where his special concern will be the "most economical method of ensuring the regeneration of the kauri.”

Native Foods

The activities of the local Department of Agriculture since the war had been resricted by lack of staff due partly to inability to recruit owing to shortage of housing.

Native food production has been generally adequate, except in one or two areas, notably Tikopia, which were affected by storm damage, and an increased quantity of native produce is being brought to the market in Honiara, although the supply of the capital’s needs is still substantially below the demand.

In Tikopia, a serious situation was caused by hurricane damage at the beginning of 1952 and relief supplies of rice had to be provided on two occasions. The critical period is now past, but food supplies will remain precarious for some time, as the island’s supply of food reserves in the form of giant taro and breadfruit is exhausted and, in the event (Continued on page 119) 19 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

Forgotten BSI Airstrip As Good As Ever NEARLY ten years ago, hundreds of US Seabees sweated day and night constructing a crushedcoral airstrip along the length of two-miles-long Stirling Island, at the extreme north of the British Solomons —and then only a feiw minutes’ flying from the nearest Japanese airfield on Bougainville.

The airfield then built is as good as ever to-day, in the opinion of the Rev. A. H. Voyce, of the Methodist Mission, who lately visited adjoining Mono Island. Mr. and Mrs. Voyce have served their mission in this area for 20 years.

Mr. Voyce considers that a day’s work would put the strip in serviceable condition for DC3 aircraft.

While at Mono Mr. Voyce had a congregation of 22 people in the Memorial Church built native fashion by the Bth New Zealand Brigade and dedicated on Anzac Day, 1944. This Brigade landed on Mono, on October 27, 1943, and liquidated several hundred Japanse. —AJS.

Fiji-Born Man In New SA Parliament SUVA, Mar. 9.

MR. D. A. DUNSTAN, returned as a Labour member for Norwood in the South Australian elections, is the son of Mr. F. V.

Dunstan, manager of the Nausori branch of Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

Mr. D. A. Dunstan was born in Fiji, end educated at the Suva Boys’

Grammar School and in Adelaide.

For a time he practised law with Mr. D. M. N. McFarlane, the present Mayor of Suva, and is now a barrister and solicitor in Norwood.

That Goddam Boy!

Orme Denny, Qantas chief in Papua-New Guinea, was lunching with some old Territorians in Sydney the other day; and they began to entertain the famous ex-pilot with stories of flying experiences in the ’Thirties. This was one of the best.

Happy-go-lucky Ray Parer was transporting mining engineer Ward Williams from some interior valley to Moresby, when suddenly the engine of the little plane began to splutter and miss.

Ward Williams did not like it, and said so. “What’s the matter, Ray?” he yelled, while beads of moisture gathered on the furrowed brow.

“You know, I think that goddam boy forgot to fill the tank,” said Ray, very mildly.

The boy had. They spent the night on a remote beach. No bones broken; but skins well punctured by coastal mosquitoes.

Royalty And The Islanders

Preparations to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in June it befitting manner are now being made in all British South Pacific Islands Representatives of Europeans and Islanders are to go to London and loca ! ceremonies are being organised.

In Papua-N. Guinea

District Committees are to be appointed to direct and control the Coronation celebrations throughout the Territory of Papua-N. Guinea.

A general pattern for the Papua and New Guinea festivities was drafted at a conference under the chairmanship of the Administrator, Mr. Cleland. Here it is: Monday, June I —Special celebrations for schoolchildren in all Territory schools.

Tuesday, June 2 —Coronation Day: At or before 9 a.m.—Thanksgiving Services in all churches. 10 a.m. —Parades and reviews, and Act of Loyalty.

Noon—Tree planting ceremony in towns, mission stations, government centres and villages. 4.30 p.m.—Official receptions.

Evening Native dances and ceremonies, and displays of fireworks.

Wednesday and Thursday, June 3 and 4 —Functions as worked out by the various District Committees in line with the wishes of the communities.

Friday, June 4 —Wherever possible, the festivities to conclude with a Coronation Ball.

At the conference, Mr. Cleland again stressed that he wished to have the symbolic tree-planting ceremonies carried out in every part of the Territory at the same time —at noon on Coronation Day.

An Administration officer will be made responsible for the over-all direction and co-ordination of the Coronation Celebration programmes.

The Administrator has asked local Coronation celebration committees to keep native requirements well in mind when planning festivities. It is desired to make the celebrations a focus for their loyalty and to convey the real significance of it to them.

It has been suggested that one form of marking the occasion would be to plant trees in all towns, villages, mission centres and government stations.

Fijian Soldiers

Three Fijian soldiers, who will be among Fiji’s representatives at the Coronation in London in June, are now undergoing special training in New Zealand. They are: Sergt. S. Buinisaqa.

Corp. T. Noah.

Driver R. Meli.

Driver Me]i saw active service in the Solomons during World War 11.

Four soldiers from Fiji and eight from the Ist Battalion of the Fiji Infantry Regiment, now in Malaya, will go to London to represent Fiji in the Colonial Coronation Continent which will march in the procession to Buckingham Palace] after the ceremony in Westminster Abbey.

Major O. G. R. Edwards, already in London, will ride in the Queen’s Escort from the Colonies.

Those selected to go from Malaya are Captain J. B. Takala, WOI AC Kilmore, Sgt. A. Sikivou, Cpl. N, Lalabalavu, L/Cpl. S. Tukai, L/Cpl, M. Latu, Pte. J. Qoro and Pte. V Lewaivakaca.

P-Ng Party

Three European officers to accom-j pany the 25 native members of the Royal Papua-New Guinea Constabulary to the Coronation:— Inspector A .M. Sinclair (in charge of Sogeri Training Depot) in command.

Inspector A. M. Sinclair (in charge Sub-Inspector P. A. Broman.

All are officers with distinguished records.

There has been some local support for the criticisms made by Mr. George Whittaker, President of the New Guinea RSL, when the selection of the 25 constables for the Coronation was announced. He said he was opposed on several grounds to sending natives at all; but, if a contingent were to go, they should not necessarily be policemen, but should be selected strictly according to the merit of their rel corded war service.

The decision to send natives has been generally approved—the argument being that it is wise to let all dependent native peoples see as much as is possible of the glory and strength of Great Britain.

The matter of sending, in addition to the police party, an official party to represent the Territories of Papua, New Guinea and North Australia, is under consideration in Canberra. —Own Correspondent.

Fiji’S Royal Visit

Planning Committee

SUVA, Mar. 8. I The Governor (Sir Ronalq Garvey) is chairman of a com-3 mittee set up to prepare the programme for the visit to Fiji of the Queen and the Duke of Edimj burgh in December. The Acting] Colonial Secretary (Mr. H. W.

Davidson) is deputy chairman and the other members are Ratu Sir, Lala Sukuna, Messrs. H. Maurice Scott, Vishnu Deo and W. G. JohnH son, the Mayor of Suva (Mr. D.

M. N. McFarlane), the Director of Education (Mr. H. Hayden), thd Public Relations Officer (Mr. L. G.l Usher) and, as member and secretary, the Assistant Colonial Secretary (Administration), Mr, E.

R. Bevington. 20 march. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS f! O N T H I

The Editors' Mailbag

leaking Sartorially 1 B-4 of Dohu Island, R.E.S.T., tails an amusing incident : heading “Sanasi’s” recollection of trip with the late Sir Hubert irray (PIM, Nov., 1952) telling the homeliness and unconvennality of H.E. (as he was always led) one remembers a similar inlent, on a South-bound steamer p, some years ago. rhere had been quite a flutter long some round-tripper ladies, ,en it was known that Papua’s sut.-Governor was to be a fellowssenger. )n the first afternoon out from rt Moresby, His Excellency spent i hours in a deep deck-chair, sorbed in the study of a large mtific work. He was dressed in lavy suit, white tennis shoes, and leavy tweed cap.

Iressing bell for dinner. Excitent rising among the little group ladies. He still sat on until witha few minutes of the dinner-bell, i then went to his cabin. Dinner I. Ladies in evening dress, morous “hair-do” with all accesies, looking expectantly towards Captain’s table. Sir Hubert ae down —in navy suit, white nis shoes, and the tweed cap ked in his side coat-pocket. oenix Is. Rabbits Tie history of the old and misere colony of rabbits on Phoenix ind, in the Central Pacific (to ich reference was made in luary issue) is provided by Mr. C. jhanan, of Melbourne, who was h Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd. le 40 years ago.

LPPL had rights over the >enix Islands before World War writes Mr. Buchanan, “and on i occasion we had to erect a con on Phoenix Island. I well lember the rabbits.

Phe story is that the American Dper of a whaling-ship, which de periodical visits to the ;arctic, hit on a plan to provide crew with fresh food when on Lr way back and forth across the ific. While his ship was in an itralian port he secured a numof rabbits, and he released them Phoenix Island, which was then nhabited. [ do not know whether the proved food supply was a success. I >w to my own sorrow how ined salty they were!” he rabbits have been on Phoenix at least 50 years. Phoenix is e more than a large, uninhabited d-bank, covered scantily with Dical herbage. te of Racial Increase valued correspondent points out t, in June PIM, Mr. Aimee Ragg mated that by 1975 the Fijians [ number 250,000, and the Indians in Fiji 350,000; whereas, in the PIM in June, 1945 (seven years earlier) the late Sir Maynard Hedstrom estimated that by 1975 the Fijians would total 180,000, and the Indians 276,000. Mr. Ragg, estimating seven years later than Sir Maynard, makes his totals about 40 per cent. more.

It could be made the subject of an interesting argument. We think Mr. Ragg was a little too liberal; Sir Maynard too conservative. Both races about doubled their numbers in 40 years. The Fijians to-day are now over 135,000; the Indians are nearly 150,000.

Gambusia as “Stock”

The ways of petty officialdom pass normal understanding. In a recent issue we described the fight that philanthropist Hallstrom, of Central New Guinea Highlands, is having with officials concerning the introduction of Paradise Birds to Australia. Here is another example.

A member of a well-known New Guinea family was coming back to Sydney, and he remembered a request made by an Australian medico that he bring South some of the famous Gambusia fish, to be tried as an anti-mosquito measure. (The Gambusia are Released in fresh water infested with mosquito larvae and, in a short time they completely destroy the larvae.) Dr. Strong, of Port Moresby, assisted the traveller and provided him with a jar-full of Gambusia.

He got as far South with them as Brisbane. There an official pounced on him, and insisted that he could not bring Gambusia into Australia.

The traveller pointed out that Gambusia now were being taken from country to country, without objection by anyone.

The official said he classified Gambusia fish “Stock,” and such animals were excluded, or subjected to a long term of quarantine. When the man would listen to neither argument nor reason, the exasparated traveller tipped his little fish into the Brisbane River where —the tidal water being salt—they immediately perished.

Crocodiles and Optomists r[IS was in an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald the other day:

New Guinea

Crocodile Shooting Expedition. Fully equipped with seagoing craft, etc., requires additional partner. Suit man with taste for adventure. Big financial return anticipated. Comparatively small amount of capital req. For full details call at our offices.

We had two calls, later on—both wanted to know how much an optimistic man, with no experience of tropical conditions, might expect to make out of crocodile shooting in New Guinea.

We told them.

A Map—and Mt. Rentoul IN a recent issue of the Methodist Missions’ magazine there is a large map of the Central Highlands of New Guinea. If you look at the left hand side you will see ‘Mt. Rentoul, 13,000 feet.” I am reminded of an incident of the midthirties.

Before Jack Hides made his most famous patrol (Fly River to near Mt. Hagen—he crossed Ivan Champion’s track just about where this new Mendi Mission is established) he had applied himself to the writing of a book, about earlier patrols.

He was an amateur and was greatly helped in the job by a superior officer, Alec Rentoul, RM.

He left the MS with me. I also worked on the MS, and sent it to London; and, when Jack returned to civilisation, he was greeted with a copy of his book, just off the press.

Naturally, he was delighted, and his first copy went straight to Rentoul, cordially inscribed.

“I named a new mountain after the dear old bloke,” he told me. “It looks out over those fascinating Tarifuroro people”—and he gave me a Tarifuroro axe—a beautiful thing of green stone, which I still treasure.

Mt. Rentoul is only 50 miles west of Mt. Giluwe, which I think is the highest in New Guinea—l3.66o feet.

It all came back to me, as I looked at that map. Jack is long since dead, and Alec Rentoul is retired and lives in Cremome, Sydney. He has been ill lately; but underwent an operation and now is quite recovered. —RWR.

Some Bits of History “The shipment of logs from Honiara, in the Solomons, to Australia, by the BP vessels, is by no means a pioneer effort,” writes Mr.

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He reminds us that, on March 15, exactly 64 years had elapsed since the famous hurricane occurred off Western Samoa, when five German and American warships were lost, and HMS Calliope escaped by virtue of her Westport coal.

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Captain Hilder’s designs—(a) A mposite design depicting a porlit of Mendana to the left, a Vlth Century sailing vessel in e centre background, and the wereign’s portrait in profile to the jht. (b) A view of Henderson airild with a plane flying overhead, th the Sovereign’s portrait to the t. (c) An Islands schooner lying anchor in calm water, with Sovereign’s portrait to the right.

Mr. Sweet’s designs:—(a) A map of the Solomon Islands with the Sovereign’s portrait to the left, and the value in a frame to the right, (b) A chart in scroll format in the centre, flanked by the Sovereign’s head to the left and HMS Swallow to the right, with the track of this vessel’s voyage in 1767 shown by dotted line on the central chart.

Miss Stinson’s design:—A Western Solomons war canoe setting out to sea against the setting sun.

Sovereign’s portrait in oval, right.

Mr. Bailey’s design:—The prow of a Western Solomons war canoe framing a portrait of the Sovereign.

Master Mac Lay’s design;—The Arms of the Protectorate on a background of native geometrical design in black and white, with the Sovereign’s portrait in oval to the left and the value beneath flanked with palm leaves.

The new stamps will be issued probably in 1954. [?]urning to the Islands, from Auck- Land:sister M. Rosalie, SJC, after four years Auckland, returned to her native Fiji.

Ir. E. M. Carlson, of Post & Telegraph it,, Suva, and Mrs. Carlson, returned from leave.

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Peculiar Circumstances of The Announcement r!E announcement that Brigadier Donald Mackinnon Cleland, CBE, had been appointed Administrator of Papua-New Guinea was made about February 18; and he was formally sworn in by the Acting Chief Judge, Judge Gore, in Port Moresby, on February 23.

These were pure formalities. Mr.

Cleland had been Assistant Administrator since 1951; Acting Administrator since April-May, 1952, and his appointment to the chief position had been agreed to by the Australian Government in December.

Why the appointment was not sooner announced, and why the announcement was made so quietly and timidly, are questions wrapped in the mysteries of Canberra politics.

The Australian Minister for Territories, every few days, provides the Australian newspapers with “hand-outs” dealing with major matters of administration. They are entitled “Statement by the Minister for Territories.” But there has been no “hand-out” covering the appointment of Mr. Cleland, and not one word reporting the appointment has appeared in any Australian metropolitan newspaper that we have seen.

There was a bare announcement of the appointment in the ABC radio news session on February 17 or 18, and a formal announcement in Port Moresby the same week; but, beyond that, nothing.

Mr. Cleland is 51. He qualified as a barrister in Perth, WA, in 1925; served during World War II in New Guinea and elsewhere, and reached the rank of Brigadier; gave distinguished service on the administrative side in Papua-New Guinea under the military occupation, and as a member of the Production Control Board, and was awarded the CBE; and from 1945 until 1951 he was in charge of the Australian Liberal Party Secretariat, and probably was mainly responsible for the only remarkable political successes enjoyed by that organisation for a very long time.

Mr. Cleland’s appointment as Assistant Administrator in 1951 was attacked by the Labour Party, who called it a political job. Actually— as he has proved since 1951—Mr Cleland has outstanding qualifications for the post, backed by personal knowledge of the Territories and their problems, gained in 1943-45.

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At the conclusion of the ceremony, Vlr. Cleland formally inspected a Captain’s Guard of the Royal P-NG Constabulary.

In a brief address the Administrator iaid that he would not deal with my serious matters of policy—his ■emarks were mainly personal. The allowing are extracts:— “During my 21 years here in the far period I had some opportunity of issessing the potential of the rerritory, and the immense task vhich confronts the Administration n developing that potential, and in wringing to dependent peoples an mlightened and balanced policy of advancement and betterment.

“Closer contact during the last 8 months, and under peace-time onditions, has only served to emihasise the magnitude of the task /hich lies ahead, its complexities, nd the challenge which it repreents.

“I just want to say, in the presence of you all, that I accept the leadership in that task, as your Administrator, with pride, with courage and with humility; and in the knowledge that, whatever lies ahead, I have always at my side a very valuable partner and helpmate in my wife. Together, we shall work for the Territory and all its people, seeking to serve and to help, wherever we can and however we can, to the best of our ability . . .

“There is very good evidence of an increasing efficiency, a growing tempo of accomplishment and a shall work for the Territory and all its people, seeking to serve and to help, wherever we can and however we can, to the best of our ability . . .

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“I am indeed indebted for thi advice and support which I hav< received from all members of tin Administration both here at Head quarters and in the field during th< last 18 months, and also from th( community generally throughou the Territory, “It is, too, a very pleasing am happy thought to know that manj of those who served with me during the military administration ar< now occupying responsible position! throughout the Territory. Thai bond of service is something whicl I value and cherish.”

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OF FIJI Mr. RAGNAR HYNE, recently appointed Chief Justice of Fiji, arrived in New Zealand per Rangitoto with Mrs. Hyne, on Feb-| ruary 23; and they left by air for Suva on February 28.

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Argument About Effect On Natives FT was announced in February L that a contingent of the Royal Papuan and New Guinea Contabulary, officered by Europeans, rill attend the Coronation in June, b is presumed that they will travel d London with Australian service nits who are now training for the bronation procession.

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However, Mr. George Whittaker, NG State President of the Reirned Servicemen’s League says lat he is against a contingent of ative constabulary being sent. He lys that the money could be better >ent in providing hospitals; and lat unnecessary jaunts of natives /erseas does not improve their lorals. He cites the prevalence of ;x crimes in the Territory at the resent time.

There is some practical sense in hat Mr. Whittaker says with reird to expenses; but man does 3t live by bread alone, and New uinea is in danger of getting out r step with the rest of the world i the question of what natives lould or should not do, just beiuse they are natives. It is pertinit to ask: Would there be the me desire to save money for hostals if it were proposed to send contingent of European ex-serviceen?

Whether or not overseas junketg undermines native morals, or is a contributory cause of crimes against European women, is open to doubt. How many of the native offenders have been overseas?

Native Peeping-Toms, native crimes against European women and children seem to be the peculiar problem of Papua-New Guinea.

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By Tolala rE last few issues of the Moresby newspaper have described attacks, and attempted attacks, y natives upon white women. A jrry business, indeed, and reminisent of the 1937 days in Rabaul, ‘hen cases of a similar nature beame so rife that the “Citizens ssociation of New Guinea” was >rmed, and some very plain speakig took place between the official ad non-official residents of the )wn.

The Administration’s defence has [variably been that the women lemselves are more or less to lame by a laxity in their behaviour i their own homes.

The Citizens held the opinion rat the “kid-glove” policy of the dministration is a contributing ictor to the natives’ behaviour here white women are concerned.

Personally, I think more harm is me than we realise by allowing -NG natives to roam about the uthern cities on their own. There as a time when the strictest ipervision was given to natives siting Sydney and other centres, i fact, for a period these trips were bu altogether, and even the ghest officials were not allowed to ke south a native, male or female, look after the babe. Then, when e regulation was relaxed, all sorts safeguards were imposed. Such ecautionary measures seem to ive gone into the discard now.

There is no need for going into ‘tails of what contacts these itives make when wandering ound a big city. Suffice it to say at they return to the Islands, variably, with a lower opinion of lite women than that which they id originally held. Whose fault that?

I never heard of a single case of sault, or attempted assault, on a lite woman during the German ?ime. It was a problem with lich the Germans were not faced, it those years of safety have now ssed; I am afraid that no amount watchfulness or disciplinary tion will bring them back again.

Commissioner of Police Grimaw, according to the Moresby st report is “disturbed by the licence” of white women after bel attacked by natives. He is lorted as saying: “This is a ious state of affairs which must stopped”. He refers to reticence, listory repeats itself. In S. W. ed’s The Making of Modern New \inea, which is a recognised textik on matters sociological, he ikes lengthy reference to these acks as they occurred in Rabaul 1937, and in a foot-note (p. 251), he writes: “In March, 1937, the Administrator made a forceful plea to the white women of the Territory that they suspend their personal feelings and testify against any native who might have given offence. Couched in phrases of duty and civic virtue, the address was productive of a flurry of confessions, and charges were brought against certain natives”.

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A writer in the Post who is a lember of the Royal Australian ►rnithological Union heartily enorses the present protective laws nd remarks: “The general public 1 the British Empire would no lore sanction a return to a jgalised plume trade than it would 3 a revival of slavery;” and then e speaks of the cruelty of the lume trade. Such a remark is idicative of the extent of his nowledge of the methods used in btaining the plumes. Such a policy r orked out to its logical conclusion 'ould ban the killing of any birds r animals. Personally, I should ke to see, firstly, a ban placed n the killing of human beings, so oing away with war.

The Asiatic question seems to be ausing some concern in New ruinea. There are letters and iitorials which reflect a certain neasiness.

I am sorry to see them. It all rose from a statement suggesting isloyalty amongst the Rabaul hinese, of whom a section was lleged to remain seated during the laying of the National Anthem at picture theatre. Such a disregard f the niceties was perpetrated ears ago in Rabaul; but nobody >ok very much notice of it because was done through ignorance, ither than with intent to insult, nyway, it is a common thing— nfortunately—to see dozens of ustralian children sitting, walking r running about, in country icture theatres, during the ational Anthem. This is not dislyalty so much as ignorance and ck of discipline.

Per capita, I should say, the abaul Chinese are as loyal as the jst of the non-native population, angerous disloyalists would scarcely 2 so dumb as to invite trouble by the National Anthem.

Noticed the name of “H, Spanner In Islander), Coogee” at the end f a letter in a Sydney paper last onth. It is many a year since I jard of Harry, who was a welllown identity in TNG, latterly Lth some properties on Lavangoi few Hanover). In his letter he as questioning Dr. Mowll’s quali- Jations for commenting on the m-existence of communism among ew Guinea natives. I agree with arry.

At the same time, I doubt very uch whether Security (assuming does exist in P-NG) takes very uch notice of what even Dr. owll tells newspapermen when he rives home from a tour. The Archbishop may know his China of 30 years ago, where he was Assistant Bishop; but P-NG, no.

Strangely enough the day following Dr. Mowll’s statement (February 2) Bishop Tom Wade, who had arrived in Sydney from Bougainville, was quoted as saying: “Bougainville natives would not adopt communism,” and adding that there was always the fear of it coming to the Islands, but the natives were happy with the present administration. Bishop Wade is a man who has lived in those parts for some 30 years, and knows his native. He is one of the few whites who has had the privilege of being initiated into the Ndook Society of Buka, and his native name means “Pig’s Neck”!

May sound a bit undignified for a Bishop, but it’s an honoured name amongst the Bukas.

Irvine Douglas, well-known journalist, returned to Australia from overseas, is turning out some readable political articles for a Sydney paper. I first met him in TNG in 1933 when he was attached to Minister Marr’s party, touring the Territory after opening the Legislative Council at Rabaul.

Douglas is a hefty bloke, well over six feet, and everywhere he went the natives accepted him as the Big Fella Masta —which was rather embarrassing when they ignored the Minister and centered their attention on a mere newspaper correspondent. But Douglas was equal to the situation. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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P. MORESBY, March 8.

ABOUT 15,000 acres have been earmarked for kenaf production in the Oro Bay region of the Northern District. This land, together with some hill country, is included in lease applications granted to Mr. R. A. Colyer, the pioneer figure in the kenaf tests still in progress near Port Moresby.

In co-operation with the Administration he was responsible for the first importation of kenaf seed, and tests have been going on for a couple of years by both the Agricultural Department and Mr. Colyer, the latter working on commercial tests on Eriama near Port Moresby.

Eriama has been the proving ground for the crop and this year’s harvest is being taken off and decordicated. Meanwhile, the Agricultural Department has its own kenaf plots for test purposes and seed production.

Erima production has been stepped up from 26 tons last year to an estimated 60 to 70 this season. A new and improved method of decordication is resulting in much higher quality fibre; but already Territory-grown fcenaf fibre has produced sample wool sacks equal to the best jute packs.

As yet very little has been released regarding kenaf plans for the Oro Bay area, but no doubt in time Mr. Colyer and his associates will have some interesting news.

Meanwhile, at Eriama, there are some 900 acres suitable for kenaf, which at present is yielding about a ton of fibre to the acre.

The Commonwealth Government and the Administration are definitely fostering this new industry. The Oro Bay leases tell their own story; and now Ministerial approval—and that of the Commonwealth Inter-departmental Works Committee—has been granted on developmental work at Oro Bay.

The immediate plans are for construction of a small ships’ wharf at Oro Bay, and rebuilding of the road from the Bay to Popondetta. 32 MARCH, 195 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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i FTER living in the New Hebrides, 1. one must consider the population question.

Of course, the largest community re the natives. The New Heb- ,deans are usually craggy and mgh-hewn, only a few decades retoved from the Stone-age. They re not over-burdened with brains, nd they are usually dirty. The rawny, muscular type tires rapifily; le wiry type seems able to work arder.

After a year or so away from the iro patch, the average native squires some “savvy.” But has also “come cunning.

Almost every island has its own ,nguage, and some characteristic, anna natives, for example, have a jputation for treachery. Paa-uma id Epi natives are versed in herbal rts, which include poisons. Maleila natives are sullen. (It is said lat Central Malekula natives still [•actise cannibalism). Aoba natives re happy; and, because of their ner features, the women are much night after by Europeans as listresses. The same applies to the anks Island natives, in a lesser ay.

J'OW we come to the Tonkinese. 1 France has done a great disservice to the New Hebrides by taking these one-time indentured tbourers French citizens. Originily they came out as contract tbour to French interests on iantations. Their fare from Indohina was approximately £2O per ead. They travelled like cattle, id, once here, they were treated ke cattle. The Tonkinese, there- >re, do not like the French.

Then came the war and transport [faculties. The French Governient could not then repatriate lem; and, when this could be done, le fare had gone to nearly £2OO er head. The individual planter ould not —and legally could not be irced—to pay the extra and the rench Government did not feel ke finding the difference.

So there the matter rested until band of militant Tonks marched ) the French Delegation and delanded repatriation or civil rights.

The French Government then lade a monumental error—probbly the worst ever executed in the outh Pacific. It passively granted itizenship rights to all the Tonklese.

In a recent conversation with the Iditor of the Pacific Islands lonthly, I mentioned the Tonkinese women, who are hard at it, building up the Tonk population.

Mr. Robson was astounded when I told him that Tonkinese women had come out with their husbands and families. So I will repeat my words.

Tonkinese women came out to the New Hebrides either as indentured labour or in the company of their husbands. In some cases they brought families. Now, with full rights of French citizenship, they are breeding merrily away and, in time, will become an even greater menace than they are now—and all under the benevolent eye of the jolly old Condominium.

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As the Tonks are French subjects, British officialdom can do nothing.

One of the bottle-necks caused by the Condominium style of government.

There are no reliable figures to show just how many Tonkinese are living in the group, but a census would be most unreliable because the race breeds prolifically here.

Some of the children, first of the New Hebridean generation, are already married, and doing quite well, thank you. So the group can look forward, with the greatest of confidence, to progressive increases in the Tonkinese population as time goes by.

Personally, I would say that there are at least a couple of thousand in the Group; and, if there is not, there soon will be.

Tonkinese live, for the most part, by running hole-in-the-wall nauvetrade stores, most of which specialise in selling pure or adulterated grog, running legitimate taxis with illegitimate prices, and other rackets. A few indulge in legitimate occupations; but, for the most part, the average Tonkinese serves no useful purpose in the New Hebridean economy.

UNLIKE our Tonkinese the Chinese are more stable citizens. The old-timers are generally respected, and behave themselves. A few have been caughl sly-grogging; but, for the most pari the average Chinese is law-abiding In my couple of years in the Group only a few sly-grog convictions wen recorded.

This can be caused by two things; Either the Chinese wish to remair in the clear, being a very weals minority, or (as it was put to me by an official) the Chinese who dc sly-grog are invariably caught. . . only the figures seem innocent. II ten Tonks are convicted againsl only one Chinese, it is only because there are ten times more Tonkj selling illegal liquor than Chinese It is hard to say.

Some Chinese, by the way, are under French protection, but the majority are under British rule.

It is onl y fair to record here that many French and British nationals have been convicted oj sly-grog offences and many more who are suspected will ultimately be caught. It is not an exclusive Asiatic racket.

Some of the younger Chinese would be better employed out oi the Group. Some of them are good fellows, and are likely to do more good than harm to the group. They all have, it is to be understood, an eye to the main chance, as is usual with Asiatic residents of the Pacific, In this, the Europeans cannot complain, for some, both French and British, are either in active or passive partnership with Chinese, Some of them are connected with large commercial interests operating in the Group and run their partnership as a sideline, totally unconnected with the interests they regularly serve.

At this writing I cannot see the Chinese ever getting a stranglehold on the New Hebrides like they have in Tahiti. There is too much heavy commercial artillery operating in the Group—companies of long-standing with large assets. Infiltration tactics, as usually practised by the Chinese, would be hopeless.

New Chinese are admitted to the Group only if they are related to existing residents.

A type of Chinese the Group could well do without is, fortunately, only in the minority. They are instantly recognised by the weird and distressing shirts they sport, and are as noisy as a working cattledog. They operate £lOO cameras (which they will sell for £3OO at the drop of a hat) and feature photography in the Port Said manner— really ripe, I assure you! Who said Marseilles had a monopoly on this business? Their trading tactics are on a par with Captain Kidd and it is possible to buy interesting watches from them. These watches have big-name dials and cases, but, alas! the contents are spurious— made in China or Japan. Naturally they sell for the big-name price, in keeping with the best traditions of spivdom.

But, as I said, these are only a 34

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Another, with a small band of 'ahitians, also missed fire. This lanter imported both male and ;male labour, but the immigrants yidently did not like the conditions f their employment. The planter nished up by hawking them around le town at so much a head in an [fort to recoup the losses incurred i their fares. I do not know much bout this particular scheme, but ae fact remains that the French rovernment’s sympathies appeared ) be with the runaways. A few Tallis Islanders are now in the rroup, but I fancy these importaons are French-Government spon- )red; or at least, have contracts pproved by the French authorities.

The engagement has been anounced of Miss Margaret O’Sullivan, ho was on the Port Moresby staff f the Commonwealth Bank for vo years, to Mr. John Brown, of le Administration staff, Port [oresby.

Two Fiji police officers—lnspector Jioji Suguturaga, a Fijian, and Sub- Inspector Walli Mahomed, an Indian—are being sent to the Hendon police establishment, in England, to undergo training in a course for senior detectives.

Mr. lan L. Gray, new headmaster of the Presbyterian high school at Onesua, New Hebrides, left Auckland in February. He went first to Fiji, to inspect mission educational institutions: and he will visit all stations in the New Hebrides. 35 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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PRODUCERS PE accounts of the Solomon Islands Copra Board for the year ended December 31, 1951, >ere published in January, 1953.

When 1951 opened, the Board had ,421 tons of copra on hand. Durng the year, it took over 10,485 tons rom planters, sold 11,448 tons to he British Ministry of Food, and lad 413 tons on hand at the year’s nd. Shrinkage took 45 tons.

For copra sold, the Board got 759,833. It paid £584,662 to the ilanters, and no less than £113,972 to the BSI Government, by way of export duty at the rate of about £lO per ton; and then showed a profit of £23,629.

Someone has to keep the BSI Administration going and, as BSI — unlike Papua-New Guinea —has not got a rich uncle in Canberra to lavishly subsidise the government, the Territory’s only industry, copra production, has to bear the burden.

When, on top of this export duty, the BSI planters are also mulcted in heavy income taxation, there is considerable bitterness engendered.

At the end of 1951, the BSI Copra Board had an accumulated profit of £63,374. By now, at the same rate, it must be close on £lOO,OOO.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of it.

What with export tax and income tax, there is no fortune for copra producers in the Solomons.

Mr. Keith Marlow, of Fiji Builders Ltd., Suva, was in Auckland on leave in February-March.

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Wanimo is on the sea-coast, north of Aitape and just on the Australian side of the Dutch border. Before the war it was an Administration patrol post. It is about 40 miles from Hollandia.

It has been suggested that the establishment of a military post at Wanimo is connected with coastwatching and the possible infiltration of Indonesians from Dutch New Guinea This theory is discounted by Authority, which speaks of the post’s weather-watching functions (“first contact with monsoons building up north of NG and sweeping down on Queensland”) and the opportunities afforded there for training the native troops of the Pacific Islands Regiment.

However, Territories residents, who probably did not know’ before that Queensland’s cyclones originated in Wanimo, and who hitherto have only known of the place as a native village which was the jumping-off place for DNG in the old bird-of-paradise hunting days, can put their own construction upon the creation of the new post.

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Old Territory residents, who know what it is like to be left out on the end of a limb in the matter of defence, will no doubt be glad to hear of these plans.

Captain Alex Frame, formerly a pilot with Trans-Oceanic Airways, left Sydney in February to Join Aii Tahiti, which has resumed operations in French Oceania with foul small flying-boats. 38 MARCH. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTULT

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RECRUITERS JLT E have had opportunity of exrr amining a file of documents relating to a series of incidents i 1949-50, when Mr. C. K. Johnson, if Lae, a recruiter for the New ruinea Planters’ Association, was ompelled to take action against ertain natives.

Mr. Johnson had persuaded the atives to accept employment conracts; but, before he could comlete all formalities and send them n their way to Rabaul, other atives—some with official status— iterfered and tried to induce the ecruits to back out of the conracts. In one case, the persons ho interefered were a medical tulil appointed by a medical mission ody, and a native constable. The il-tul was fined, and the constable isciplined.

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Another correspondent says that e Administration will take no Bps to protect recruiters against rogant and unlawful interference native labour contracts by native mor officials. If an appeal is to made to the courts it has to be ne by private prosecution: in lich event the Administration tomatically provides the procuted natives with legal help, are often than not, that help is ire skilled than the prosecutor can ord to hire—in other words, the osecutor brings against himself e machinery of the Crown Law ipartment. [t is an interesting sidelight on e operation of the organisation ;roduced in the 1945-50 period by e Ward-Murray regime for the rassment of private enterprise d the protection of the native ainst “exploitation by soul-less iployers.” [t is not the offijcial policy of the Administration to discourage engagement of native labour by private employers; but, under some conditions introduced in 1945-50, and also through the influence of certain mission bodies, the recruitment of labourers by private employers in P-NG is becoming increasingly difficult and costly.

For the first time in American Samoa, the principle of universal adult suffrage was used in the elections to the new and reorganised House of Representatives. The Western Samoan Government sent observers to study the elections, which were held quietly and without incidents. 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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ANOTHER 20 Education officers are to be engaged in Australia for Papua-New Guinea. Of these, 10 are to do a one-year course at the Australian School of Pacific Administration in Sydney before taking up duty in the Territory.

The others will have to go direct to their jobs without benefit of ASOPA There is now to be a regular intake of Education cadets. Those who have acquired their teacher’s certificate will be given a year at ASOPA before they see the Territory; but others, who still lack a certificate, will do a year’s course at a Teachers’ Training College before going on to ASOPA.

Life is made easy for these young people. There is something to this quip about being born thirty years too soon!

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Clark, of New Zealand, joined the staff of the Levuka Public School in February.

Queensland Government has announced it will subsidise the Torres Strait MOP industry by £1,500 in the coming season. A school for divers will be established at Thursday Island in an effort to improve the work of the Torres Strait Islander divers now operating the industry there.

The Rev. Arnold and Mrs. Stackhouse, [?]en at Katoomba with Mrs. A. E. ker, with whom they stayed when gland visiting Sydney en route from gland to New Zealand, where they plan settle.

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PT. MORESBY, Feb. 20.

RABAUL, with traditional individuality, has plumped for a type of house known as the “H” design, and the first is to be erected on the site of the prewar dwelling of Mr. Justice Phillips.

These Administration homes are planned on the basis of sacrificing frills for floor space. There will be somewhere around 16h squares, but no louvres, glass windows or wall linings. Rabaul folk apparently want lots of space, and are content with shutter-type windows and single walls.

The “H” design is in the shape of a flattened “U” with one of th “U” bends cut short. This sho] side will contain a kitchen, and the a store room; a large living-dinin room lies at right angles, and tb other “U” arm bend contains th bedroom wing, with three bedrooir and a bathroom. Not much h£ been said about the cost, but it wi probably be about £5,000.

In Port Moresby, shutter-typ windows and unlined walls ai much in disfavour as being tc reminiscent of the temporary cor verted Army-hut dwelling, an “comfort” has come to be gauge largely by the number of window and/or louvres, and the insid finishing of the dwelling.

In a year or so it should be pos sible to see just whether Po] Moresby or Rabaul selected the bej design for the tropics.

Home-building is getting unde way in Rabaul, insofar as the Ac ministration is concerned — fit dwellings are to go up on Namanul Hill, and eight more at Kereva Private builders have long bee busy in the Rabaul area.

Mrs. G. Reitz, wife of an America Lutheran missionary in New Guinei took a special nursing course at missionary college during her recer visit to the United States. With M Reitz and their two childrei Phillip and Heidi, they arrived i Sydney by PAA clipper in mid February and will shortly return t New Guinea. 42 MARCH. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH I

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i N Ordinance to Provide for the L Taxation of Landowners” dated December 24, was the Western cific High Commission’s Christmas ;sent to the Gilbert and Ellice ands. rhere are 27 inhabited atolls in ; G and E. Colony: the economy the Colony (apart from Ocean and) since the war and the tual elimination of private enterse, has been largely carried on a Government trading organisan and the native co-operative ieties (Tangitangs); and the tives now enjoy a large and iniasing measure of self-governnt.

Sxcept for Ocean Island’s phosate, copra is the staple product these atolls. Britain is trying make the WPHC Territories bear re of the cost of their own adaistration; and now the taxation the G & E Colony has been put a copra basis. lach inhabited island (or atoll) the groups has been allotted a nage of copra which it must, h year, deliver to the Governnt. The native Island Council divides the tax among the landaers, according to its local knowge; and any landowner who fails deliver his allotted amount is lished by fine.

Tie allotments are made accordto population. The two most >ulous islands of Abemama and aiteuea must each provide 53 s; Abaiang, 46 tons; Tarawa 42 s; Butaritari, 40 tons; and so on. vly-settled Sydney and Gardner, the Phoenix group, are allotted ons and 1 ton, respectively.

'he total tax imposed is 572 tons, the British MOF price of £65 . per ton, this is worth over ,000 Aust. to the Government, ite a help, when added to the enue derived from the Ocean tnd phosphate industry.

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Mrs. Lemke and the two elder boys were drowned: Mr. Lemke and the baby were saved. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 43 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1953

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Gordon's Stands Sup’c&fKZ iak, Wartime Base, Becomes Airways Town From Our Own Correspondent HOLLANDIA, Feb. 4. [THEN plans for Biak, the island f off the north coast of Dutch New Guinea, become a reality, e island will be unrecognisable to istralian servicemen who knew it an Allied base during the war. ten it was an endless pattern of lite coral, criss-crossed by airids from where planes took off bomb the Japs.

Biak now is a stopping place on i Royal Dutch Airlines Constelion route from Sydney to Amsterm. When KLM opened the sere in December, 1950, accommodan for passengers on their overfht stop at Biak was very poor t plans were immediately made ■ the building of a hotel to cost [O,OOO. The hotel will have 46 in-bedded rooms, dining room, :, offices and lounges with large idows with magnificent views ir the sea. The building contract 3 been let to an Amsterdam firm i all material has been specially mite-proofed so that the voracii local white ants will not eat i building down within a few ,rs. A pumping plant will supply hotel with water and a tennis irt will provide exercise for passengers. The hotel was prefabricated in Holland, work began in Biak last November and it is expected that the hotel will be officially opened by July, this year.

The hotel is only part of the development plan for Biak. The 6,900 ft Mokmer airstrip where the big planes land will be improved and covered with an impregnated layer of asphalt and new terminal and air-radio buildings will be set up.

Over 50 permanent houses for airport staff and government officials will be built, as well as a post office and hospital.

Lastly, Radio-Omroep-Nieuw- Guinea, the Government broadcasting service now stationed at Sentani, near Hollandia, will be removed to Biak at the end of this year. Sentani is not suitable for radio transmission. A new radio transmitter which is 20 times as powerful as the present unit at Sentani is now being built in Holland for the new station at Biak.

More Cattle for N. Guinea From Our Own Correspondent P. MORESBY, Feb. 20.

COCONUT Products Limited of Rabaul (Carpenters) have imported another large consignment of cattle from Australia for their plantations in the Gazelle Peninsula. These arrived on the Lautoka early in February from Cairns. They are Shorthorns from the Mt. Garnet district in Queensland, and several Zebus from Fiji —the company’s second consignment from Fiji during the last two years. It is hoped to cross-breed a type of cattle specially suited to tropical conditions. The firm has already made great progress in reestablishing cattle on its various plantations.

A son, Christopher John, was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Siegart, of the CSR Co., Tavua, at Lautoka Hospital, Fiji, on February 9. 45 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1953

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From Our Own Correspondent NORFOLK IS., Feb. 11.1 A RECENT call for labour, 1 open up the watercouri across the Common at King ston interested a few workers, an a good job is being made of chip ping out the water hyacinth whic was blocking the drain. Wag( are now £2 per day; a similar ca in 1948, when wages were 14/- pe day, probably accounted for th fact that few workers turned up o that occasion.

Workers employed by the eminent are now receiving the bas: wage but this means, of course, th£ the cost of running the Island no is an embarrassing amount and i consequence more money must t raised by various forms of taxatioi The islanders are not happy aboi this either —but it is just a matte of cause and effect.

The sole direct tax in the pa! was 6/- per day for nine days i lieu of nine days’ work on th roads. This has now been put u to £1 per day for nine days; but : is a safe bet that everyone wi still pay rather than work.

The cost of preparing convej ances and registering deeds an mortgages is going up about 600 pe cent., but, of course, it was absurd] low at £1 a time. 46 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Mangola was travelling from anus Is. to Madang through Twelve Cile Passage when, in a tropical awnpour, she struck the reef. She as assisted in the early stages by le tug Tarra and the BP motor sssel Bulolo, which arrived on 9th. etween 9th and 13th, when she ft, Bulolo made several unsucissful attempts to pull Mangola f. Malaita arrived on the scene i 12th and took over from Bulolo. [angola had been carrying 1,400 ms of copra plus general cargo, id an attempt was made to lighten ?r by shifting some of this to the alaita. A considerable amount of ipra was also jettisoned from angola.

On February 14, Malaita was successful in moving M angola’s bows 40 degrees, but two attempts at towing her off the reef snapped the tow. At about 9.30 a.m. on February 15, when the tide was at its highest peak, and when Malaita, which had again taken up the tow lines, was shortening the distance between the two ships, Mangola slid off the reef and, momentarily uncontrolled, looked like running onto another reef. The situation was saved by Captain Harry McNaughton in the small motor vessel Jocey, who was able to take up the Mangola’s heavy lines and head her towards the open sea.

Full credit for saving Mangola from the reef must go to Captain B. Hilder, of Malaita, and Captain McNaughton, of Jocey, and their officers and crew, who worked hard and long in conditions which were not good and were often dangerous.

TOP: The “Mangola " lying on the ef, with Kar Kar in background. The Bulolo” on the right, with a hawser st to stranded ship. Photo taken y Vernon Wheatley) from “Malaita” eft foreground).

BOTTOM: The “Mangola,” a minute ter she slid off the reef, after pull by Malaita,” to which hawser is still tached. 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1953

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Why P-NG Laws Were Altered From Our Own Correspondent P. MORESBY, Mch. 3.

ANEW Amendment, in effect o: March 1, requires employers c natives to issue rations instea of paying cash.

Money payments in lieu c rations will be allowed only on per mit from a District Commissione: These may be granted to two classi fications of casual workers—thos competent to purchase their ow rations, and to those who source of supply are readily accessible those living during employment i their own villages where there i sufficient native foods. In certai cases, “group” permits may be is sued for workers residing in village near their employment.

Permits will not be issued freelj The general intention is that nativ employees should get rations in stead of money.

Too many natives employed i towns have been living on a die of bread and “lolly water,” an Friday night pay-money has fre quentiy been squandered in gamb ling. Many casual labourers are no competent to make a division o wages into legitimate spendinj money and necessary food pur chases—they have about as mud capacity to feed themselves properl; on a cash allowance basis as wcul« a small European youngster give] money instead of meals.

The change from getting casl of over 30/- a week to 20/- or s< a month is a big jolt for thesi natives. But in their own interests and that of the race, somethin! had to be done to stop the bread and-lolly-water system, pliii scrounging and malnutrition after 1 Friday night gambling spree.

Some reports indicate that, onc( the natives are convinced that ii is a Government decree and not ar employer’s idea, they are resigninj themselves to the change.

What is needed now is a general round-up of “hangers-on”, whi haunt town boy-houses and spongj on their relatives. Port Moresby in particular, has far too many oj these shrewd gentlemen, who fine cadging easier than working. The issuing of rations will not solve the problem of inadequate feeding, il there are four or five pairs of hancU dipping into standard ration.

Time-honoured family and kin* ship obligations make it particul larly difficult for a native to refuse to share his earnings—cash or rations—when the experienced spongers turn up at the boy-house. 48 MARCH, 1053 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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APPROVES Approval of the system of restricting cash payment of wages to natives was expressed by Bishop Wade, of Bougainville, New Guinea, tfhen addressing a semi-public meeting in Sydney in February.

The Bishop said that the majority )f native labourers were improvident, md had to be cared for. If they tfere simply given cash in return :or their labour, they very quickly spent it, or were robbed of it, and vere soon in distress, or illlourished. The money they earned ihould be handled for them in such i way that they were guaranteed bod, education and care when sick.

Anglican residents of the Sepik District of New Guinea have disussed plans for building an Angli- :an Church at Wewak. The site las been chosen, and a drive is on low for funds to purchase building naterials. The labour will be on i voluntary basis by church memlers.

A daughter, Patricia, was born at the European Hospital, Madang, NG, to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Briggs on January 27. The Briggs family, who lived at Angoram, on the Sepik, are well known in the Territorv ,y ’

Mr. Eddie Lund, of Tahiti, and Mr. John Harrington, of Aitutaki, returned home per TEAL Solent on February 17 from Auckland. Both had been on business visits to New Zealand. . . ... ~ A former footballer, Mr.

J. G. Hobbs, of Christchurch, New Zealand, has arrived in Apia, Western Samoa, as accountant to the NZ Reparation Estates, succeeding Mr. W. L. Edwards, who died in December, 1952. 49 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 19 53

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LAE and RABAUL The sum of £5OO, given by an anonymous donor for secondary school scholarships for Papua-N.

Guinea primary school students, will be spent on two 5-years endowments. These have been awarded to Barry Moore, aged 11, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Moore, of Bulolo, and to lan Spencer, aged 12, whose parents operate Raulawat Plantation, on the North Coast of New Britain. The former is now at All Souls School, Charters Towers, Queensland, and the latter is a student at the Slade School, Warwick, Queensland.

Father van de Walle, a Dutch missionary, recently passed through Australia on his return to his work in the Solomon Islands, where he has been stationed for 19 years.

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From Our Own Correspondent.

PORT MORESBY, Feb. 20.

COPRA inspection and grading will come into operation soon at all Territory ports. The Copra Grading Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council in 1952 has received the assent of the Administrator, and regulations will be approved shortly.

Similar legislation for the inspection, grading and packing of rubber will be introduced in the Legislative Council this year. It is understood that it will provide for inspections to be made at the plantations, not at the main ports, as with copra.

This legislation was suggested by the Planters’ Association of Papua in an interview with the Territories Minister during his last visit to the Territory.

James Joseph Kenny, who recently arrived in NSW from New Guinea, appeared in the Sydney Central Court on February 21 on a charge of falsely pretending that he was Dr. J. J. Kenny, in charge of a 60-bed hospital at Abau, Papua. It was alleged that Kenny had attempted to obtain medical equipment worth £1,472 from Watson Victor Ltd., of Sydney. He was remanded on £3OO bail. 50 MARCH. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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NZ Criticism of Islands Fruit Causes Commotion From Our Own Corresponded.

SUVA, Feb. 20. rHE commotion at Suva when reports arrived that New Zealanders were criticising the uality of bananas exported from ■iji had some amusing angles, but ; was also encouraging.

It is clear that New Zealanders, anana-starved for years and specially since the 1952 hurricane riped out the Fijian plantations, ave a grievance; but to place the lame on the right shoulders is not asy.

First, the local Agriculture Deartment, metaphorically lifting its ands in horror, pointed out that [though a considerable part of New ealand’s banana imports goes from iji, supplies are also provided by amoa, Tonga and Niue; and that i Fiji the shippers have inspectors t every banana-packing post, that le shippers themselves receive a onus for every case of bananas lat reaches New Zealand in really ood condition, and that, at the uva wharf, a proportion of the ises are opened and tested.

Simultaneously the PRO photorapher, Mr. Rob Wright, came up ith an illustration. While on leave, e had seen in an Auckland shop ime deplorable, “pig-feed” bananas hich were said to be from Fiji, ut he discovered that they had >me out of a case with a Tongan bel, and had been ripened by beig stacked round an electric light ilb inside another case.

On the day following New Zeand’s complaints, the Tofua was at le King’s Wharf loading bananas ir Auckland. Also at the wharf as Fiji’s Governor, Sir Ronald arvey, in company with the irector of Agriculture (Mr. C. arvey), and other officials. Sir onald looked into things briskly id knowledgeably. He then met nion Co. officials and went on >ard the Tofua to inspect the dp’s modern refrigeration system.

On that day (February 5) the ofua loaded only 7,000 cases at iva, presumably because the ironic shortage of fruit-cases conaues to restrict shipments.

Now come more reports from ew Zealand which indicate that imoa is on the mat for shipping manas of inferior quality. At the me time, although some of the ird words about Fiji have been eely withdrawn, Fiji’s banana ex- >rts are not entirely exonerated, hatever the cause, post-war lands fruit (not necessarily from iji) has declined in quality as uch as it has increased in price.

A suggestion has been made that 1 cases of bananas exported lould be clearly labelled “FIJI”, lus putting the onus on the industry as a whole to maintain the highest possible standard at all stages, with the one alternative of facing the consequences at the consuming end.

Mrs. A. Hurley, after spending three months with her daughter in Auckland, returned to Suva in February.

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Aircraft Trouble At

MADANG Prom Our Own Correspondent MADANG, Feb. 10.

A MANDATED Airlines DC3 aircraft crashed on landing here to-day while trying to avoid a Qantas DC3 aircraft. No one was injured but the MAL plane was extensively damaged.

The Qantas plane had entered the runway as the MAL plane was approaching to land. The pilots of the respective aircraft and the control-officer disagreed as to what instructions were given. An inquiry is likely to be held and until officials arrive from Port Moresby the Madang airfield is likely to be closed as the MAL plane is in the middle of the runway.

Appeal for Dutch Flood Victims Prom Our Own Correspondent HOLLANDIA, Feb. 4.

RELIEF committees have been set up in Dutch New Guinea under the leadership of the Acting Governor, Mr. N. Makkes, to collect funds for the flood devastated areas of Holland.

Mr. Makkes has appealed in Malay and Dutch over the Government radio system to the people of Dutch New Guinea and urged them to give all they can to the appeal. 54 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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A PEREGRINATING NUISANCE Fen UNO Officials on Picnic Tour in South Pacific HAVING spent a few days in Nauru (held jointly by Britain, Australia and New Zealand under Trusteeship), a “Visiting Mission” of the Trusteeship Coun- -11 of the United Nations was due n Rabaul on March 13. It intends o spend four or five weeks visiting arious centres in New Guinea 'rust Territory. It proposes to deiart from Port Moresby on April 6, and to visit Australia and New lealand before going on to Western iamoa, another Trusteeship Teritory. The members of the Mission re: Mr. Enrique de Marchena (Dominian Republic) ( Chairman ).

Mr. Leon Piqnon {France).

Mr. Najmuddin Rifai (Syria).

Mr. N. A. C. Mathieson (United kingdom).

They are accompanied by the Dllowing members of the United rations Secretariat: H. Wieschaff (USA) (Principal ecretary).

J. Lewis (USA).

L. Haug (Norway).

A. Allanui (Syria).

M. Milchin (UK).

Miss M. L. Winnette.

The P-NG Administrator (Mr. leland) met the Mission in Rabaul, nd then left the Acting Director I District Services (Mr. A. A. oberts) to accompany the party a its tour of the Territory.

EDITORIAL NOTE—This is the ;cond visitation of the kind which le South Pacific Trust Territiories ave suffered in recent years. Such sits have no practical value whatrer; but the cost of transporting iut Mission members and six jcretaries on what is merely a >rgeous official picnic is very savy. The P-NG Administration iars part of the cost, and the whole the inconvenience and disorganation involved in showing these ;eless people around. Judging by ieir past utterances and their re- >rd. at least two members of the irty (representing Dominica and rria) probably will seek assiduisly for conditions and incidents i which they can base a howl at e next Trusteeship Council; and, i past experience, none of the >uth Pacific Trusteeship countries Jnited States, Britain, Australia id New Zealand) will get any al help from this peregrinating usance. The United Nations rganisation appears to be followg the pattern and the course of e ill-starred League of Nations; id the proceedings at the Trusteedp Council in the last two or ree years certainly heighten that ipression.

Tribute To Edgar Leetag

By Charles Mcphee

I LEARNED with deep sorrow of the death of Edgar Leetag, killed in a motor-cycle accident in Tahiti. He was a successful artist; but we who knew him best will never forget his intriguing personality, his sincerity and his extreme generosity.

William Edgar Leetag, an American, was drawn to Tahiti over 20 years ago, and was fascinated by that new world of native grace, and poetical charm, and decided to remain there. He was an artist, and his early years had been a time of bitter struggle. Then, in Tahiti, he developed a new technique— painting on velvet—and he made a remarkable success of it. As time went on—and especially of late there was a growing demand for his work. Not long ago, his “black velvets” were selling at from £5O to £lOO each; and I am told that, already, their value has doubled.

Although Papeete perhaps knew him best as a wild Bohemian, Edgar Leetag actually was a very hard worker. He was usually in his studio on Moorea by 6.30 a.m., and often he would continue late into the night. A visit to Papeete was his relaxation. His work will keep alive the name of Leetag, the artist; but we who knew him well will remember Leetag, the good friend. 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1953

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V. Samoa Aids Dollar Pool ZEALAND’S Minister of Ll Island Territories, Mr. Webb, congratulated W. Samoa on idding £149,000 to the dollar pool rom the proceeds of cocoa sales to he United States.

Mr. Webb said that this was an lutstanding effort for a country with i population of only 85,000. Credit vas due to the W. Samoa Governnent for taking determined steps i year ago to restrict dollar spendng

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THE New Zealand Government has given permission for the import of fruit and vegetables from Norfolk Island, but on a basis to protect NZ’s own growers.

The permit limits the times of import and restricts imports to airfreight only—thus ensuring a high retail price. The total fruit and vegetables from Norfolk in any one week are restricted to 3,000 lb weight—a trifling amount, equal to the total cargo capacity available per week in the NAC aircraft. This prevents any special charter flights at a time when Norfolk might want to supply a lean market profitably- As an encouragement to the development of a serious produce trade between Norfolk and NZ this system could hardly be less interesting.

“Coral Route” arrivals in Auckland in February included, left to right:— Veterinary Surgeon Dr. Yves Pincemin, if Tahiti, on holiday.

Mr. Vince Costello (right of group). proprietor cf the well-known Garrick Hotel, Suva, and Mrs. Costello, were met by Mr. A. D. Hall, of Auckland.

Mr. C. B. McRae, on leave from the NZ Ministry of Works, Suva. 57 ’ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Suva tested on 5990, 5995, 6005 and 6130 kc/s in the 49-metre band during the period. Reception in Auckland seemed to indicate that the 6130 kc/s frequency might prove the best, though all channels were to some extent interfered with by overseas.

According to the Berne List, Suva had evidently intended to originally use 6000 kc/s; but, during last year, Noumea shifted to that frequency from 6035 kc/s, due to a Voice of America transmitter “parking” on the same frequency. The VO A station was itself heavily jammed, deliberately, by one of the Soviet Far East jamming nets.

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Interested listeners should keep watch on the 40-metre band for further tests, possibly on other frequencies, as these will doubtless be made.—JPS.

Copra production was a record in Fiji in 1952. Total for local milling and for export was 40,262 tons— over 4,000 tons better than the previous record in 1951. 58 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Curious Angles of South Pacific Trade BECAUSE banana-hungry New Zealand cannot get enough bananas from Fiji (Fiji can low produce the fruit, but cannot jet enough cases to pack it in) NZ las been encouraging banana prediction in Western Samoa.

Samoa is reaching out after this rade, and says it soon will be in a josition to ship between 20,000 and 15,000 cases per month—which will irovide the Fiji industry with serials competition.

Bananas of very poor quality have een reaching NZ from Samoa, howver, and there has been bitter riticism. The fault is in the packng. Samoan bananas appear to lave an excessive curve, causing raste of space in the cases, and the xporters have been packing little ananas into the curves, so as to ill the case and give the weight— ut with disastrous effect on averge quality.

A different kind of case is now i be tried by the Samoa banana iterests.

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It is surprising that, in view of le difficulty and high cost of getng suitable banana cases for Fiji nd Samoa, the people concerned o not again try to arrange shipient in bunches. It is largely a latter of organisation and the pro- Ision of suitable ships. Large lipments from West Indies to nited States go in bunches, and le fruit arrives in far better conition than when cut from the inches and packed closely in cases.

Bunch loading, of course, does itail a waste of space; and proibly the South Pacific-NZ banana affic is so small, comparatively, lat waste of space becomes a ajor factor.

Fiji and Samoa have only the one arket—NZ. Attempts have been ade, again and again, to market ie fine, well-flavoured Fiji banana l Australia—where it is eagerly cepted in place of the unattractive oduct of the Northern NSW •astal plantations: but the NSW mana-growers howl to their mem- ;rs of Parliament, and the Fiji iportations always have been killed r political action.

Fiji imports a great deal of NSW >ur. If Fiji were to put a duty i Australian flour, to operate lenever Australia’s imports of Fiji nanas fell below a certain figure, ere might be interesting results, hich would have greater weight th Australian politicians—the tes of the banana-growers, or those of the wheatgrowers and millers?

The Scramble for Cases SUVA, Feb. 24.

OUTCRY has been heard in Suva because Samoa Bulletin reported that somebody in Fiji not long ago offered to sell lowpriced banana cases to Western Samoa.

When Apia made official inquiries in Suva, the Government of Fiji said the Colony is itself rather desperately short of cases for bananas, and that it would be several years before such exports would be permitted.

Large quantities of excellent bananas are now dumped on the local market, while New Zealand is crying out for them, simply because there are no cases in which to pack them.

New Zealand complaints about alleged poor quality of Fiji banana shipments have been handsomely withdrawn. It is the Samoan shippers who are on the Dominion’s mat. 59 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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fhe Gilchrist Scholarship for »2-53 has been awarded from the itish Commonwelath and Empire ir Memorial Fund, to Sister irgaret Woodhouse, of Levuka,

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FOR FIJI METHODIST Mission headquarters in NZ announce that £3,728, collected there for Fiji hurricane relief last year, will be expended on the replacement of married quarters for theological students at Davuilevu, and the hostel at the Navuso Agricultural School.

Due to the difficulty of allocating funds fairly to individual churches in Fiji, it was decided not to use the funds at all in that way.

Miss Elsie Hitchcock, lately of the Dental staff, Rarotonga, has been appointed Tutor Sister at the Auckland Dental Clinic.

Island residents returning in February after leave in New Zealand included:— Mrs. T. G. Blanchflower (whose husband is Chief Surveyor, Tonga) had brought her son to King’s School, Auckland.

Rev. Father P. G. Wall, SM, returned to isolated Keppel, northern Tonga. His brother, Father J. M. Wall, SM, returned from NZ to resume command of the mission vessel Hambia, in Solomons, about the same time.

Mr. Loyd E. Fuerstenau, Personnel Director, American Samoa, returned with Mrs. Fuerstenau and children for another term.

Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Shore, to take up a teaching appointment at the Nukualofa High School.

Mr. L. W. Robertson, Assistant Treasurer, Nukualofa, and Mrs. Robertson, after six months’ leave. 61 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Two passengers, Assistant District Commissioner lan Skinner, of Wewak, and District Officer George Wearne, of Aitape, were both rescued and flown to Lae Hospital, where their condition is now satisfactory.

The doctor’s body was not recovered until to-day, and it is being flown to Wewak for burial.

The aircraft was taking off from Vanimo (near the British-Dutch border on the north coast) but failed to gain height, and crashed 150 yards from shore. Both passengers had a remarkable escape from death; but the doctor, who received severe head injuries, was apparently knocked unconscious and drowned.

The whole District mourns the loss of this man, whose charitable work at all times, and under any circumstances, earned him respect and devotion, not only from people in the Sepik District, where he was District Medical Officer, but from the whole Territory, where he and his aircraft were known so well. It is a severe loss to all the lonely Patrol Posts, Agriculture, Medical and Mission stations which often relied on him for food and other emergency supplies as well as medical service.

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M. GEORGES M. DE GIRON- COURT, 80-years-old French scientist, from Nancy, arrived in New Zealand in February to study Maori music. He proposes later to do research work in French Oceania. His particular field is the tracing of migrants and racial < origins through a study of music, j His work has been published in scientific journals in France and elsewhere. One of his conclusions, from recent studies, is that the South American Incas came originally from Asia.

We imagine that his findings in French Oceania to-day, based on musical evidence, are likely to indicate a strong Broadway and Hollywood admixture, with a fair dash of Hawaiian in the local racial makeup. 62 March, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Fiji Prepares for Two Royal Occasions (From Our Own Correspondent) SUVA, Feb. 10. rERE are suggestions that Fiji might be wise to cut down the Colony-wide celebrations planned for Coronation Week in June and to concentrate on an allout celebration when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived for their two-day visit in December.

The reaction to the unexpected announcement by the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) last week, that tier Majesty and the Duke would spend December 17-19 in Fiji (with a call at Tonga on December 20) nade it clear that Fiji in general, and the Fijian people in particular, vill regard the Royal visit as the nost important historical occasion since the Cession.

For the first time in history a British reigning monarch will set f oot on the soil of Fiji, and in the light of Fiji’s direct, unshakable oyalty to the Crown, no greater went is ever likely to befall these slands.

Fairly lavish expenditure has been >lanned for the Coronation period. sTo word of criticism has been made if the Government’s propoals, but hey are now being discussed with in eye to the even bigger event (in local eyes) at the end of the year. There is likely to be a good deal of support for the idea that the Coronation could be fittingly commemorated at a fraction of the cost now planned, and that the balance of 'the money could go towards meeting the heavy outlay that will be essential in December if Fiji is to mark the Queen’s visit worthily—as it must.

No hint of sthe form the Royal welcome will take has yet been given.

Miss Poko Utanga, of Rarotonga, has entered the Ardmore Teachers* Training College, Auckland. 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT M A R C H , 1953

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Film Music

ON

Fiji Location

By Jack Thornton

COME with me to a copra plantation near Thalanuku, a small Fijian village on the shore of a deep-water lagoon, about 50 miles from Suva.

In the midst of a circle of English, Australian and New Zealand members of the film-production unit, thirty frizzy-haired, husky Fijians sit in the shade of lofty palm trees. Embarrassed expressions are caused by the presence of their ivomen-folk, who stand in front of the spectators, giggling expectantly; they have come to see the fun and bhide the performers.

From around the point chugs a launch, nosing toward the shore.

From its glistening deck leaps the central character* loaded with the paraphernalia of his profession. He Is a New York songwriter flown specially from the States to organise, arrange and orchestrate background music for this film about STap Island of the 1870’s, now being made in Fiji. (At time of writing. -Ed.).

Dressed in a check suit, loud tie, Panama hat, red socks, brown moccasins, and wearing thick hornrimmed glasses, he advances breathlessly up the beach to the boconut plantation, carrying a portable table and a bulging briefbase.

Arrived in the centre of the semi-circle of native musicians, he erects the table, mops his brow vith a huge red handkerchief and pells: “How do, boys!” to the assembled orchestra.

“Bula!” they bhant in reply, laughing among themselves.

The central character removes his hat and places it on the table, together with the brief-case, from which he extracts a conductor’s baton and reams of manuscript—music scores for his musicians. The orchestra is divided into three instrumental sections; reed-blowers, bamboo drum bouncers, conchshell blowers. Each man respectfully receives his sheets of musical markings.

After emptying his pockets of aspirins, packets of chewing-gum and two stop-watches—all of which he places neatly on the table —the conductor raises his baton, calls for silence, and the performance commences.

“Okay, boys—let’s take it from the beginning,” he says. “Everybody on the ball? Okay! Here we go”—in best Broadway rehearsal style “one-two-three-four-da-dade-da-da-da—DA!”

The music starts, the girls giggle, the musicians sweat as they bang and blow their single-note instruments.

One by one the European onlookers discreetly detach themselves from the circle of spectators, holding their sides as they make for the beach, where everybody erupts into uncontrollable laughter.

I think I was the last to leave the vicinity of the orchestra. I had not wanted to miss a note of this astonishing performance. But when the conductor waved his baton furiously for silence, swallowed four aspirins and told the orchestra to go back to the seventeenth bar, I could not control myself any longer.

You see, I knew that not one of the Fijian musicians could read a note of music.

Sucker From

TAHITI By J.P.S.

WELL, there they go—and I certainly envy them,” said George, as the Solent lifted her bulk from Lauthala Bay and set her nose in a slow climb to the assigned altitude, heading eastward —towards Tahiti.

“Yes,” I said, “It’s certainly a wonderful place for tourists — and others! No place—not even Honolulu —has had such a terrific build-up of attractive publicity.”

“Well, you must admit it’s a lovely island —spectacular mountains, lovely beaches, French cuisine, easy liquor laws, beautiful women—what more could you want!”

“Nothing,” I said. “Absolutely nothing—in fact, there are some who could wish for less—old Wagner by the rail over there, for instance.” I indicated a rather shabbily-dressed, slightly-built man of some seventy summers, who was watching the big aircraft disappear. “Let’s get back to town and I’ll tell you all about it.”

Later, as we sat on the verandah of the Grand Pacific, I told him that that old boy was a case in point. This was the story.

He is an American, and he had a small ironmongery business in the Middle West somewhere. All his life he’d dreamed of going to Tahiti—and he finally made it two years ago.

I’ll never forget the day he arrived. He travelled in the ship I was serving in at the time. We were due off Papeete at 8 a.m. I was up at six, and noticed him by the rail, so strolled over. But Wagner was in another world— gazing at those misty peaks and the white line of surf on the Punaauia reef. He never even heard me say good morning.

Well, we landed him in due course, and the few days we were in port I noticed him from time to time round the various joints, having a whale of a time. Yes, Tahiti was the end of the rainbow. The States would not be seeing Wagner again. He’d been saving for about 50 years for this, so he wasn’t wanting in dollars— yet!

Two months later we dropped in again. I didn’t see the old boy around, so made a few inquiries.

Oh, yes, he was out in the Districts—living with Babette.

Outside the Beachcomber Hotel, Deuba, location headquarters of the “His Majesty O’Keefe”

Company) New York songwriter Herb Harris, watches Broadway choreographer Daniel chagrin rehearse a spear dance, which s featured in the ilm. 65 PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L T M A R C H , 1953

“Great Scott,” I said, “Babette can’t be a day over 22, and, dammit, she’s a smasher —what on earth would she knock around with a bloke of Wagner’s age for?”

Nevertheless, that was the way of things, they said.

Then, just before sailing, I saw him for a few minutes. He was radiant with joy. Sure, Babette was with him—the prettiest girl in town. Wonderful kid. She’d look after him. They were building a fine little place out in the country.

Babette had a piece of land out there. Yes, sir, O’Brien was dead right—and all the rest of them.

To think he hadn’t come here 30 years ago. “You’ll have to come out and see us some time.” I said I would, first opportunity—and we sailed.

We never got back there, and I often wondered how it was panning out for Wagner. Then, when I arrived here in Suva a week ago, who should be sitting right there but Wagner—a picture of misery.

I could see right away that the dream was ended —had turned into a nightmare, in fact. We shook hands and after the third Scotch Wagner started to thaw out a little. • * * “Yes, sir,” he said. “Boy, was I taken for a ride! Sure, I should have known what was coming.

Sure, I should have had more sense. Sure, I read the wrong books. Wal, brother, I’ve learnt the hard way.”

“Ah, well,” I said. “You seem to have enjoyed yourself while it lasted, so what are you griping about. Now that you’ve got Tahiti out of your system, you can go back and settle down quietly in the Middle West.”

“Settle down quietly!” said Wagner. “Yeah? What on?”

“Hell!” I said. “Is it as bad as that? Surely you had no trouble in disposing of the house at a good figure.”

“Listen, brother!” said Wagner.

“You’ve seen all them dandy little villas strung at intervals all the way from Faaa down to Taravao.

Wal, I figger that at least 70 per cent, of ’em have been financed by guys like me—and not all Amuricans, neither. No, sir.

“Listen, man!” Wagner continued, “I’ll tell you why all them lovely gals round the Papeete bars are so gol-dumed happy and carefree. Most of ’em are set up in ten-thousand-buck houses in the country.”

“But, man,” I said, “you don’t mean to tell me that you gave her the house?”

“ not exactly,” said Wagner.

Here’s the pay-off. Everything went swell up to about three weeks after we got the house finished.

Yes, sir, maybe it was worth it after all! Then one morning Babette disappeared. Didn’t say where she was going. But I heard there was a boat in.

“Then, next day, she arrives out in a taxi with a bloke from the ship, walks in and looks at me as though she’d never set eyes on me before, and says, ‘Who the hell are you? Get off my property.’ Just like that—and I could see she meant it.

“Wal, sir, it hit me for the first time that it was her property. Me being a foreigner, everything had had to be fixed in her name. Of course, she would have got the house in the long run, when she’d planted me in the ordinary way— but, brother, I sure wasn’t figgermg on it this way. Kinda thought she wouldn’t mind waiting five or ten years.

“Yes, sir, they sure laughed when I got back to town. I seen Babette in Quinns a few days later and overheard Marie and Lisette and some of them other sweethearts congratulatin’ her for pullin’ it off Bro-ther! Seventeen thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars and 47 cents O’Brien’s cost me up to this morning—and I’ve still got to get back to the States.

Worst of it is I can’t go back to the old home town. Wal, how the heck can I? They’ll aU know the story. I’ve still got a few bucks back in the States—but it’s going to be tough going. Yes, sir!” * * * that’s Wagner’s story,” I said to George. “I’m reasonably sure that he’s dead right about that sort of thing happening down there every day. They never seem to learn. Well, naturally, the victims don’t give it a lot of publicity when they get back home, so the story just doesn’t get around.”

“They ask for it!” said George.

“Tahiti is a wonderful island—as beautiful as any in the world, I suppose—and with any number of charming and decent people there to meet, if you look for them.

There just seems to be something in the air down there that drives the steadiest of men crazy. Anyway, I still want to go back ”

Pitcairn’S First “Bounty

DAY”

PITCAIRN ISLAND, where public holidays, as such, are not usually observed was this year encouraged (by the SDA missionary, Pastor Ferris and Mr. Allen, the education officer), to declare a holiday on January 23 and celebrated “Bounty Day.” Heavens knows, if anyone should celebrate the safe arrival of the Bounty on its flight from Tahiti 163 years ago, it should be the Pitcairners!

Cricket and rounders were played all morning and in the afternoon general sports were held. Then came the big feast under the coconut trees on the main road. Cookies, pumpkin pie and watermelons were plentiful. The first celebration of Bounty Day on Pitcairn came to an end with an evening concert in the Court House.

FHMcC.

One of those lovely valleys on the Island of Tahiti. 66 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

A Simple Matter of Evidence!

By S. G. Middleton, Commissioner of Native Affairs in West Australia and formerly a Magistrate in Papua—A Broadcast Address.

FN 1931 I was a Patrol Officer in L charge of the Mondo Police Post n the Owen Stanley Ranges. One lay a mountain village constable rrived at my camp, saluted with a iourish, and dumped on my table a iackage containing something trapped in banana leaves which melt to high heaven. It was the forerm of a human being in an adanced state of putrefaction.

The indisputable, if gruesome, piece f evidence having been photographed nd disposed of, I invited the village onstable to tell his story.

It appeared that a woman member f his tribe and village was on her ray to a nearby garden when she fas set upon by three men of a eighbouring tribe and killed. Her ody was taken away and some of eaten, but the scene of the cannibal ;ast had been located by the alert onstable and his men and the evience picked up among the remains.

Did he know the names of the iree men? Oh, yes. A little girl ho was following the woman saw id recognised them; she had hidden i the jungle near the track until ightfall for fear of being seen by ther enemies. It sounded authentic > me.

The scene of the crime was the [eipa Valley. On the fifth day out nr party (about a dozen armed conables and a couple of NCO’s, a :ore of native porters and our enmsiastic guide, the village constable) :ached a point only one ridge away om the Meipa. It was almost dark hen we topped the ridge overlookig the Meipa Valley and River, but nr guide pointed out our objective, village perched precariously on a izor-backed spur about six miles up ic valley.

When darkness fell with tropic sudmness, I followed the bare heels of ar guide and the faint track by the mcil-thin ray of my well-taped elecic torch, while the police boys kept ;rfect file formation by sticking in ie backs of their belts phosphores- :nt rotting sticks which glow eerily night in the Stygian darkness of ie Papuan jungle.

It was early in the morning when e cautiously approached the village.

The well-trained boys, in accordice with their briefing, melted off ini the darkness to surround the vilge, while my malodorous friend, the llage constable, and I took up a rategic position between the two rows of houses in the lee of a large granite rock.

At last—the dawn! Ten minutes more and it was light enough to see an arrow in flight; then the blast of my whistle turned silence into pandemonium, and, with shrieks, howls and shouts, the rudely awakened village sprang into life and action.

With their rifles in the slung position, the police boys tripped, grabbed, and handcuffed together the fleeing natives as they streamed from their huts. In a matter of minutes it was all over.

Most had escaped to the jungle, as anticipated, but we had a couple of dozen “hostages” who, thoroughly scared but very quiet, had been herded near my rock in the middle of the village.

The recognition of the blue serge and red trappings of the “kimani” (native police) and the sight of a white man with them had the effect of restoring calm. The natives of Papua do not fear the white officer and the native police. Our captives were vastly relieved to find that it was a Government patrol party and not a band of native marauders, who had “attacked” their village!

Within the hour they were chatting amiably with the police boys and laughing till the tears streamed from their eyes at the evidence of gaping holes in the flimsy, sago-palm walls which bore mute testimony of the inmates’ desire to reach the protection of the jungle by the shortest possible route!

One of the three men had been caught. I explained the object of our visit and pointed out that they would be released as soon as the other two wanted men were produced.

Strong, immediate, and unanimous demands were made of those whom our captives could induce to come from the jungle to produce the culprits. One village elder held his manacled hands high in the air as he addressed his unseen audience thus; “Look what you have done, you fools!

You have annoyed the Government and see what has happened to me!

Bring and (naming the men wanted) back here and let me get these things off my hands.

Lau hereva vadaeni!” (I have spoken).

NOT long after, a small party emerged from the jungle, pushing before them two reluctant and thoroughly scared young men, the two we wanted. They put up no resistance and raised no objection when handcuffs were transferred from a couple of our hostages to them, and the others were released.

After breakfast I carried out the usual preliminary examination of our prisoners. Yes, they had killed the woman, they freely admitted. This man (indicated) clubbed her heavily from behind and the other two finished her off with spears and tomahawk. They then trussed her body to a pole and carried it to that creek you can see away down there, made a fire, ate some of the body, and left the rest for wild pigs.

Nothing extraordinary or suspicious here, I decided.

They accepted, with stolid equanimity, the direction that they must accompany us to Yule Island, there to meet Judge Murray, who might put them in gaol. If the Government wanted it that way, that was all right by them.

Six days later, goggle-eyed and afraid, they were having their first close-up view of the sea and then crouched as near to the bottom of the canoe as they could get, they were

An Innocent Pot!

This big tri-pot was, according to Oscar Nordman, of Tahiti, left by the last American whaler to call at Papeete in 1906.

The vessel was the Charles G.

Morgan, of New Bedford. In landing the pot the Master of the ship let it be known that this pot at least had never been used to serve a wellbroiled missionary. It had been on the vessel since she was launched in 1843. 67 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

being ferried across Hall Sound to Yule Island.

Nearly a week went by, Magistrate Thompson had carried out the preliminary hearing and, satisfied with the clear-cut evidence produced, had committed the trio for trial.

THEN one day Thompson summoned me to his office to hear an amazing story. A village constable who lived a bit farther down the valley from the original complainant arrived at Yule Island on a routine visit. He heard the story of our patrol and of the arrest, confession, and trial of our prisoners. His reaction was startling.

“What nonsense!” he told Thompson’s chief Court interpreter. “I knew that woman; she died of sickness. She was ’s (the complainant village constable) sister!”

And so the lid came off the whole strange brew. It was proved conclusively that the woman had died of natural causes. But the average Papuan seldom accepts that a person has died of natural causes. Centuriesold belief in the power of “puri-puri” (sorcery) dies hard, Our friend the village policeman knew enough about Government law and administration to realise that a charge of “killing by sorcery” would not be accepted as prima facie evidence of murder, yet he felt positive of his neighbours’ participation in the death of his sister. Hence his concocted story, It was the simplest thing for him to convince the three prisoners, whilst we were pre-occupied with our breakfast, that it was futile for them to deny they had killed his sister. They knew they practised “puri-puri” and ‘The Taubada” (Master) knew it, too.

To please him—and to please me, I suspect—they had cheerfully pleaded guilty and would as cheerfully have gone to gaol for a crime that was never committed by anyone!

Whilst those who really know something of the intricacies of the black man’s mind can understand their reasoning and beliefs in such matters, the Government could not tolerate its patrol officers and police boys wasting their time and Government money in such a manner, so a disappointed and shamefaced village policeman lost his uniform and went to prison for three months on a charge of spreading lying reports.

The fact comforted me little as I trudged wearily back with my exprisoners to their village and then repeated the awful switchback crosscountry journey to my eyrie at Mondo.

All for nothing? No, all for experience and a wider knowledge of black brother and, above all, a firmer conviction than ever that Sir Hubert Murray was, as usual, correct in his deductions and directions to his magistrates and patrol officers.

It was his inflexible rule that a plea of guilty must not be entered or accepted from a native. Nor was it permissible for a police magistrate in Papua to commit for sentence a native charged with an indictable offence; he must always be committed for trial, and efforts made to ensure that the evidence produced at the trial before the judge is factual in every detail must be continued, even after the trial has taken place.

CROSSQUIZ NO. 241 ACROSS I. —Who was the last Aztec ruler of Mexico? 7. —Who invented logarithms? 8. —W hi c h Englishman won the Nobel prize for peace in 1933? 10.—W h i c h country’s capital is Riga? 11. —Which Japanese statesman was four times premier? 12. —Which animal is considered as the King of the beasts? 13. —What is the term for a representative of the Government? 16. —W hi c h atmospheric gas is used extensively for lighting? 17. —Who invented the phonograph? 19. —Who was the medieval philosopher whose romance with Eloise is well known? 21. Who is the Poet Laureate? 22. —Over which race ruled the famous King Attila?

DOWN I.—What was the name of the two brothers who first inflated balloons by heated air and who made many ascents? wawTiilH S v, th f Ct^ tor of Europe and Was d Th „ Litt!e Corporal”?

Wa u, t o e first P res ident of the 4 -On nU , pi situat'd? Wlllc * l river 18 Florence and Pisa 5 —Bv what namp ic atove shields and LLk the device arms? 0n a of Liberty’’? 0 ~ thC &Uth ° r of “ Es « a y on 9.—Who was the famous Italian painter Who died of the plague at the age of n \ n 1 et ™ e?

H.—Who was the author of "Peer Gynt”? f 14 -—What is the name of compounds formed by the condensation of alcohol and an acid with elimination of water? 15.—What is the name of the commonest metal? * 18- Who was the inventor of the halftone P hot °-engraving process? 19.—What term is associated with tennis, MS?£“£e ? name of a river in Europe, Russia, Scotland and England?

Spuds Are Off!

rERE’S gloomy news for Island exiles whose stomachs turn over at the sight of the dry, uninteresting dalo—or taro.

During January, floods swept some of the principal potato growing areas of New Zealand, heavily reducing the season’s crop. Exporters to Fiji, Samoa and Tonga in January had to cut their loadings to a fraction of the quantities ordered by Islands importers—and potatoes are likely to be right off the export list from now until next season. All supplies will have to come from Australia, with its less satisfactory shipping connections with those Groups. Prices are likely to be high.

In Rockhampton, in February, Kenneth Albort Bock, extradited from Port Moresby, and formerly of Samarai, pleaded guilty to stealing £5O in Rockhampton six years ago by fraudulently altering a Commonwealth Savings Bank record.

He expressed regret and refunded the £5O. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, but sentence was suspended on his giving a bond to be of good behaviour for 12 months.

The Rev, and Mrs. A. W. E.

Silvester, veterans of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons, returned to New Zealand in December. Mr.

Silvester went to Vella Lavella 18 years ago, and remained when the Japs invaded. He organised the rescue of many Allied airmen shot down in the area, and was awarded America’s highest civilian decoration. After a year’s leave Mr.

Silvester probably will be appointed circuit minister.- AJS. 68 MARCH, 195 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Modern Methods Used

In Hydrographic

Survey Of Fiji Waters

By Jack Thornton r[E Royal New Zealand Navy survey ship Lachlan berthed in Suva early in June last year and ihortly after, at the request of the Fiji Government, began to sound ;he approaches to Suva and Port Sllington, and to see whether a ihorter passage between these ports :ould be located. The Fiji Governnent had also requested advice on general hydrographic matters, and he desirability of setting up a Fiji lydrographic Survey Service. The Lachlan had been charting the few Zealand coast for months, and he job—especially in winter —can ;et very monotonous, so the RNZN vas only too pleased to make her ivailable for hydrographic survey n Fiji waters.

A deep-water passage between >uva and Port Ellington, provisionally considered suitable for use by ;eneral shipping, has now been ounded; and this new channel will educe the sailing distance between hese ports by about 50 miles. As t is very probable that modern nethods of charting would reveal he existence of other deep-water hannels in coastal waters of Fiji ,nd other Pacific Islands, it is exacted that the Lachlan will visit sland waters at some future date.

The Lachlan returned to Fiji /aters this month, to carry on.— !d. PIM).

Originally designed and built for nti-submarine work with the Royal Australian Navy, Lachlan is on loan o the New Zealand Government, md was converted to a modern survey ship in 1949 at Auckland’s Devonport Dockyar d. The NZ Government has placed an order for a new survey vessel now being built in Britain, and it is hoped that delivery will be made before the Lachlan is scheduled to return to the Royal Australian Navy next year.

Most of the senior officers aboard the Lachlan, and about a third of the ratings, are from the Royal Navy. The officers are on loan from the Admiralty’s hydrographic survey branch (reputed to be the only branch of the Royal Navy to pay for its own upkeep, mainly through world-wide sales of Admiralty charts); many of the ratings are time-expired Royal Navy men engaged by the New Zealand Government.

Offiers and men work long hours, for the ship normally spends more time at sea than most vessels.

Modern science, by speeding up charting methods, brings extra work to the men, who must keep pace with the recordings of the machines.

Every hour of automatic recording by scientific devices means an hour’s work in the chart-room, where mechanically produced figures are transferred to charts by human hands.

Lieut.-Commander G, P. D. Hall, (Continued Next Page) TOP—The RNZN survey ship LACHLAN leaving Suva on a misty morning. Charting is carried out in all but the roughest weather.

LEFT—A floating beacon being lowered overboard. Half-way up the 30-ft. pole is the galvanised iron radar reflector, on which radar ranges are taken at distances up to five miles.

LOWER LEFT - Officers and ratings at work in the chart-room, where mechanicallyrecorded figures are transferred to charts by hand. 69 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1853

DSC, RN, who was second-in-command of the Lachlan in NZ, explained it this way: “Radar enables us to carry on beyond the point at which we would have left off before its advent, but it means a lot of extra work, especially in the chartroom. Before we had radar we never worked at night. Now we can go on for twenty-four hours a day.”

In New Zealand waters the Lachlan usually leaves port on a Monday and remains at sea for 11 days before returning to take on provisions and allow her crew a spell of shore leave. In Fiji, the vessel left on a Monday and returned the following Friday, allowing the crew every week-end in Suva. At sea things are kept moving and the crew is seldom idle, for every man must play his specialised part in the intricate job of charting.

The ship’s position is first determined by taking angles between points ashore. Topography is based on local Land and Survey maps, I was told. “This speeds up the process of fixing our exact position.

Anybody can take a sounding but the thing is to locate this sounding on a chart. This is why we must first pin-point our position before we begin charting.

“After we’ve done so we steam on a pre-arranged course—depending on the area we’re charting— laying floating beacons, each weighing about a ton, and with anything up to one hundred fathoms of steel wire rope. The beacons are fitted with galvanised iron radar reflectors and black flags. They float with about 30 feet showing above the surface, and we can take radar ranges on them up to a distance of five miles.

“It wouldn’t be much use taking ranges and bearings oh them if we didn’t know their positions, so we have to fix them exactly where we want them. This can be done in a variety of ways. One method is to play out piano wire wound in lengths of 140 miles. Every time the drum revolves we know that the ship has travelled one-thousandth Pfrt of a nautical mile. One minute of latitude is the same as a nautical mile, so when the drum has revolved a thousand times we know that we have travelled one minute of latitude on the chart, and we lay our beacons accordingly.

“We can also place them by dead reckoning—estimating our position fromour speed and direction—or by ships log. When we’ve laid the beacons we measure the angles between them and so determine exact location. This enables us to fix soundings on the chart, and in this way we can sound depths at distances of 60 miles off-shore ” nZ or r cl ™rting close to the coastline Lachlan carries three launches and a converted air-sea rescue f£n 6 Li?; U ?£ h operates in conjunction with the mother-ship, charting mainly in harbours and SuSorl channels. All of these craft are fitted with asdic echo-sounding devices for recording depths and submerged obstructions.

The launch crews work about the same hours as the men aboard the mother-ship. They usually cast-off from Lachlan about 8 a.m. and return about 6 p.m. When operating close to the ship the launches return for an hour at mid-day and the crews have their nun ration and lunch aboard.

Modern charting is exacting work. iP x, P r °duces such accurate results that many of the charts made Delore the advent of radar and asdic are unreliable by comparison. Naval officers believe that more accurate charts are needed of the coastal waters of many Pacific Islands, particularly those of potential strategic importance. Scientific methods of hydrographic survey will, no doubt, eventually provide them.

Tropicalities.

The Contra

CAPTAIN A. S. FITCH, retired chief of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. was warmly entertained when he visited Moresby recently, and at one function he was asked how he came to find E. C.

Crisp, his successor, and now the Co’s present well-known managing director.

“A little trading concern had gone out of business,” said “Gappy.” “We bought from it a vessel called the Vaemari. We agreed to pay £4,000, plus stores. There were practically no stores on it. But the bill presented to me read: ‘To vessel Vaemari, as agreed, £4,000; to stores (4 bars of soap) 4/-; total, £4,000/4/-.’ I was so struck by that that I made it my business to find out who had prepared the account.

I wanted that man in my business.

It was young Crisp. The rest you know! ”

But the victim would not let him get away with it.

“I found STC a tough firm,” said Mr. Crisp, acknowledging a toast.

“The accountant was a conscientious man named—call him Smith— and Gappy was the bane of his life.

A neglected debtor would drive Gappy to distraction. One day, looking through a ledger, Gappy noticed that an account owing by the Browns was overdue. Brown was a dentist, and Mrs. Brown helped him out by keeping boarders. They owed £7. Smith acknowledged that he had made no attempt to collect.

Gappy snarled, and poor Smith left for the Browns’ forthwith.

“He came back, and reported no success. Times were hard, just then, and Gappy was in a bad mood. ‘Go back there and don’t return to this store without that cheque, or some se curity for it,’ he shouted at Smith.

The desperate Smith departed. a comae of hours later he returned, with a wrap around his face, and spitting blood.

“‘Well, where’s the cheque?’ demanded the merciless Gappy.

“‘I didn’t get it,’ said Smith. ‘But I got a contra. I got all me teeth pulled out!”’

Another Malaria Drug

rE search for the perfect answer to malaria still goes on. At least half-a-dozen drugs have been used widely in the last 15 years, but most have dropped out of favour. The latest preparation now being publicised in Southeast Asia, is called Daraprim described as “synthetised by Dr.

George Hitchings and widely tested during the year.” It is claimed that, if it is taken before the mosquito bites, it will give general immunity against the disease-carrying anapholes, whereas such well-known drugs as Atabrin and Chloroquin, while controlling malaria, do not give protection against later relapses.

Meanwhile, some experienced medical officers, after lengthy experiments, have gone back to Quinine, and are using it, usually in combination with other drugs, as the basis of their war against malaria. Much of the terror has gone out of malaria in the past decade, and medical science is confident that it will have the disease completely under control before long.

Dr. R. H. Black, lecturer on Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney, left for New Guinea at the end of February to continue experiments with an anti-malarial drug named Totaquine. This drug, like Quinine, is made from the bark of the Cinchona tree. Working with the South Pacific Commission, Dr.

Black has been administering the drug since last year to the natives of a village in the Trobriands, and results are being observed with interest. The plantations of Cinchona, first introduced to New Guinea Highlands before the war, are now being steadily increased.

Not A Happy Job

SOMEONE has said that a policeman’s life is not a happy one; but what about the happiness of an Assistant District Officer in New Guinea, who also holds the job 70

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of Coroner? Of such a one is Mr.

Max Orken, of Rabaul.

Early in February there was a report that a native woman who had apparently died from natural causes and been buried a fortnight, actually bad been killed by a blow on the iaw. Exhumation was decided upon.

Ihe Coroner had to supervise the job, and make arrangements for a post-mortem (which did not support the assault story).

ADO Orken was still reeling when a male native was found hanging from a tree in the bush at Naminula. He had been dead for about ;en days. The Coroner had to view he body and hold an inquest. After ;wo days’ inquiry, he found that ;ause of death was “strangulation ind a cervical fracture of the spine consequent upon his having hung rom a tree by a rope passing iround his neck.” There was not ;ufißcient evidence to say whether t was suicide or murder.

“If I had to be a Coroner,” said me resident, after buying Max an Jcoholic stimulant and hearing his ale, “I think I’d choose Greenland n mid-winter!”

Like Old Times

EARLY in February the Union Steam Ship Company was advertising round-trip tourist ccommodation in the Islands vessel latua —twenty-one days of comortable, leisurely sea travel for 71/10/-.

We understand that the new 'ofua is fully booked far in advance ut during the summer months here appear to be some vacancies fferihg in the Matua. The vessel i fact sailed on her February oyage with some empty accomlodation.

Sandals Versus Shoes At

Suva Grammar School

i T intervals for more than a year \ parents of boys attending the Suva Grammar School (for uropeans and part-Europeans) ave protested against an apparently cupid new convention.

For years the boys wore neat indals on bare feet—wear which is ninently suitable in the rainy heat E Suva. Then came the bureau- :atic instruction that shoes and >cks must be worn. The cost of eeping growing boys in shoes in iji, where footwear prices went irough the ceiling years ago, is a eavy item to add to the constantly sing cost of living. There is also le unfortunate fact that more 'ten than not, in the Suva climate, le wearers of socks spend much of le day with damp or wet feet, A suspicion persists that the )surdity may be due to some inuence which hopes to make a cial distinction between people bo wear shoes and socks, and jople who wear sandals or even ) footwear at all.

Ngg And Bulolo Pine

BECAUSE most of the Klinki and Hoop pine of the Morobe plateaus, in New Guinea, has been made available to the lumbering enterprise formed by the Australian Government and Bulolo Gold Dredging Co., jointly, most people overlook the fact that the other big NG company, New Guinea Goldfield Ltd., branched out into lumber at about the same time as BGD (1948-49). It was able to get timber supplies from some of its leases, and in the year ended September 30, 1952, it cut 1,820,000 super feet. The important fact, from operations view point, is that the Co’s big transport lorries, carrying machinery and supplies in on the new Lae-Wau road, can now get a profitable backloading of timber.

But the outlook is not bright.

The Co’s plant is capable of milling at least 2,000,000 super feet per annum, but the reserve of standing pine timber does not exceed 10,000,000 feet. Unless more timber leases are made available to NGG —which does not seem to be Canberra’s policy—there is only a limited future for the Co’s new enterprise.

WEEKLY broadcasts to housewives on nutrition questions have been instituted at Suva by the South Pacific Health Service. This little -publicised organisation—sup ported by Fiji Colony, the Western Pacific and New Zealand (on behalf of Western Samoa, the Cook Islands and the Tokelaus) —does valuable work in health practice and theory.

Its headquarters are at Suva, and the Inspector-General of the SPHS is the Director of Medical Services, Fiji. The running of the Central Medical School at Suva is one of its responsibilities.

The first broadcast was directed largely to European housewives who are new to the tropics and who are often sadly disillusioned in Islands where they had imagined they would find no food worries.

Newcomers often spoil local fruits and vegetables through not knowing how to prepare or cook them. In Fiji it is noticeable that dalo (taro), when cooked by Fijians, is a totally different thing from the soggy or brick-hard object often produced by Europeans and Asiatics.

The first broadcast described how to cultivate pineapples and to prepare the fruit, ending up with a series of recipes for pineapple dishes. (See next page).

Savage Is Still Not Far

AWAY NOT many Government Gazettes in the world contain references to such weapons as spears, bows and arrows, clubs, wooden swords and bone daggers, unless they have to do with museums.

In the Papua-New Guinea Gazette, however, early this year, these primitive weapons were soberly banned from being carried as the personal possessions of native employees. Axes, knives and tomahawks were authorised, but only when required as “tools of trade” in the employee’s line of duty.

This ban is needed, for experience has proved that a native, though superficially very adaptable to the environment of a plantation or workshop, quickly reverts to skilled handling of his ancient tribal weapons when tempers flare.

And it has been known that in close-quarter clashes natives armed with rifles have flung aside thentrusty firearms and got down to ding-dong fighting in the \timehonoured way with well-aimed stones and stout sticks.

Mr. G. R. Powles, High Commissioner for Western Samoa, left Auckland by air on March 3 en route to Samoa, after furlough and consultation with Government Departments in New Zealand.

PAUL MASON, of Inus Plantation, on Bougainville, Territory of New Guinea, made his name during the War as the most famous of the illustrious Coast-watchers in the South-West Pacific Area. To the Australian Catalina squadrons who dropped him supplies, uniforms, and eventually, a Commsision, he represented the upper limit of continuous bravery, and remains their No. 1 Hero of the World War II.

Sketch by Brett Hilder. 71 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

Ways With Pineapples rE following is Fiji’s good deed for the other housewives of the South Pacific. The Nutrition Section of the South Pacific Health Service has recently been telling Fiji how to use some of the local foods. The first series of the talks concerned pineapples, which grow in virtually all of the Pacific islands, and here are a few of the things you may not know about this luscious fruit: THE pineapple is a native plant of South America. The early Spanish explorers are thought to have taken it to Europe and to the Pacific. It was first mentioned in Hawaii early in the 19th century. Now canned pineapple industries have become established in Hawaii, Queensland and Fiji.

New pineapples can be grown by planting the green tops of the fruit or the suckers which rise round the base of the plant. Suckers take about a year to bear fruit. Tops from six months to 12 months longer.

The suckers from the parent pineapple bed are prepared by smoothing off the broken end, drying for a day or two by leaving them in the sun and then planting out. The tops may be prepared in the same way. The plants should be kept free of weeds, though the ground round them should not be dug or hoed too deeply in case the shallow roots are damaged.

The finest qualities are developed when the fruit is allowed to ripen naturally on the plant. The pineapple does not increase in sweetness after it is picked because the sugar in the fruit has come from the leaves.

The best quality pineapple has a small compact crown of leaves and it is advisable to avoid fruits which have large crowns.

Try slicing the pineapple lengthwise into wedges for a change from slicing across.

Each serving then has some of the sweetest and most desirable portions of the fruit. The core may be removed from each slice.

Save the pineapple skins. Wash, and cover with cold water, bring to the boil and boil for 20 minutes, strain and add 1 cup of sugar to each 3 cups of juice.

Return the juice and sugar to the pan and boil for 5 minutes. It can then be used as fruit juice and for fruit salads or for pouring over cold or hot sweets.

Spiced Pineapple Upside-Down-Cake

*>i cup butter or margarine. l-2/3rds cup of brown sugar. 3 cups pineapple pieces. 2 cups sifted flour. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1 teaspoon nutmeg. 2 eggs—beaten, Vi cup milk.

Melt t/ 4 cup of butter or margarine in cake tin. Add 2/3rds cup brown sugar, disso,ved Arrange the l„ l„e s “|, SyrU!> ‘* ‘° Tm * desl '"- !■•«« Sift together the dry ingredients. Beat a™ r ®j” alni "£ brown sngrar with the eggs.

Add the milk and the remaining butter or margarine melted. Gradually stir in 5»" r and Beat Sfn Pour over the fruit in the cake tin Bake In moderate oven (350 deg.) f o ?‘ 40-50 Ste? tCS ’ ? Uni ° nt ° a plate - The fruit with whf b * comes "PPermost. Serve hot* with whipped cream if desired. This nudcakl 18 Cqna,ly dellclons served cold as a

Spaniards May Not Be

AMUSED! rESE were the questions set in a school examination in the Cook Islands (part of Polynesia) : “What do you mean by pollination? What is self-pollination?

What is cross-pollination?

This was one answer received by the teacher: “Pollinations are all the Maori People with brown skins. Most of them lived in warm countries. The Maoris here in the Cook Islands are pollinations, too. The crosspollinations are the people of Spain.

The self-pollination is the maoris of the Cook Islands.”

Pineapple Chutney

1 medium sized pineapple.

IV2 cups vinegar.

IVi lb. brown sugar. 2 cups seedless raisins or sultanas. 1 tablespoon salt. 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh or preserved ginger root. 1 level tablespoon of garlic or 1 onion chopped finely. 2 or 3 finely chopped small fresh or pickled red peppers.

V\ lb. finely chopped blanched almonds (optional).

Peel pineapple, remove core and cut into small pieces. Add all ingredients except nuts. Cook slowly until pineapple is tender. Add nuts and cook until the mixture thickens. Stir frequently to prevent scorching. Pour boiling hot chutney into hot sterilised jars and seal at once. Serve with meats or curried dishes.

Pineapple And Banana Filling

Mix together % cup grated pineapple, Vi cup sugar and 2 teaspoons cornflour and cook until thick; cool and add 2 ripe bananas, mashed, and tablespoon lemon juice. Use for sandwiches, cakefillings, flans, pancakes, etc.

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T) BADERS are asked to send in recipes using Islands ingredients or ingredients readily obtainable in the Islands.

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Vegetable Cheese Pie

1 dstspoon fat. 1 small onion finely minced. 1 dstspoon browned flour. 1 teaspoon curry. 1 cup of stock or water.

Salt, pepper to taste.

IVz cups cooked diced vegetables (or tinned mixed veg.). 4 oz. S.R. Flour. 1 tspoon butter or good dripping. 2 oz. grated cheese.

Vi, teaspoon celery salt. % gill milk.

Melt the fat and fry the minced onion j until lightly browned. Add the flour, salt, pepper and curry and cook for 2 minutes. Pour in the stock or water and stir until the sauce boils and thickens.

Add the cooked vegetables and place in a 7-inch sandwich tin. Sift the flour and salt and rub in the butter. Add the cheese and mix to a soft dough with milk.’

Turn onto a floured board and knead lightly. Roll and cover the vegetables in the tin. Glaze with milk, bake in a hot oven from 20 to 30 minutes. —Mrs. MH, Rabaul, NG. ]

Clam-Spaghetti Casserole

1 tablespn. butter. 2 tablespns. onion, finely chopped. 7 ozs. minced clams. */4 teaspn. salt. 1 16-oz. tin spaghetti in tomato sauce. | 2 tablespns. grated cheese.

Melt butter in saucepan over low heat.

Add onions and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add minced clams with 2 tablespoons clam juice, salt and spaghetti; mix well. Cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Spoon into casserole, sprinkle with cheese and bake until cheese is lightly browned. —Mrs. LA, W. Samoa. |

Quick Fried Rice

1 cup diced tomatoes. 1 cup diced onions or eschallots. 1 cup chopped cabbage, lettuce or beans. 1 cup chopped meat (bully beef or any kind). 7 2 cups boiled rice. 1 egg. 3 small pieces chopped root ginger. 2 tablespoons soya bean sauce.

Fry tomatoes, onions, cabbage, etc., in a little fat till slightly browned. Add meat. Break in egg, and partly cook.

Next add rice, ginger and sauce stirring well. Chopped eschallot tops give a colourful and tasty touch, if added just before serving. (Serves six.) —Mrs. LJB, Rabaul, NG. I Pelicans Protected IN order to discourage attacks upon the pelicans in the Solomon Islands—references to which have been made in the PIM on a number of occasions—the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific has declared the pelican to be a “protected bird” as from January 1. In archaic language, the Gazette announcement says: “Whereof let all men take notice and govern themselves accordingly.” It is to be hoped that the BSI kanakas will be sufficiently impressed. 72 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY Solution to Crossquiz From Page 68

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No. 4—Migration of Waders jl/fAKING observations on the IT J. migratory wading birds—“snipe” . to most Europeans—becomes easier when one becomes familiar with their habits.

At first, seeing ones and twos or small flocks scattered far and wide over an expanse of mud-flat or reef on some island shore, you think it will be difficult to do much in the way of identifying or observing. On the other hand, if you go along at high tide you will have a job to find any. Perhaps there will be a few perched on the mangrove roots, but most of them will have gone inland to the grassy slopes, or the native gardens, or the rice-fields.

In between the tides is the best time. Then, when there are justexposed patches of sand or mud, especially at the mouths of creeks, you will quite likely find flocks of these birds. Forced from the main feeding grounds by the rising tide, the waders first gather on these higher spots; then, when the tide rises further, they take off for points inland. Later, as the tide is dropping, you will see them returning.

In March, these flocks will be getting bigger as the birds assemble for the long flight north to their breeding grounds in Siberia or Alaska. This is the time to look put for species not usually seen dur- ! ing the year; the chances are you will spot them as they pass through, j There may be a few Sanderlings, i running busily back and forth on the very edge of the water. Perhaps there will be a Sandpiper, a Stint, or even a Kentish Plover. At the other end of the scale of size there is always the chance of a : Whimbrel or a Bristle-Thighed Curlew; almost as big as the familiar Reef Heron, but dis- I tinguished by the down-curved bill. ■ But the flocks will be made up chiefly of the four most common ■ species, in Fiji at all events, the i Eastern Golden Plover, Wandering i Tatler, Pacific Godwit, Turnstone. I If you get close enough for a good i look at the plumage, you will notice at this time of the year that some of the birds are beginning to assume their fine feathers for breeding. The Godwits will perhaps be ; a bit reddish on the chest. But it is the Golden Plover which is worth a second look. Some will be sporting their fine black chests, so different from the plain dirty white of the non-breeding season. Bordering this black area will be a fine line of pure white on the sides of the neck, separating the chest from the upper plumage, the grey brown feathers, flecked with gold, which give the bird its name. 74 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Creighton had previously been Dund guilty of the charge and senenced by Judge Gore to 4 h years’ nprisonment. He appealed and the .ustralian High Court quashed the sntence and ordered a new trial.

Judge Bignold presided at the rerial. Mr. Dudley Jones appeared 5r defendant and Mr. A. Driscoil Dr the prosecution. The defence r as that Creighton had been the ictim of a conspiracy between a ative woman, Walin-Bunmunga, nd a police corporal named Dopi Rev. S. Ropeti. of W. Samoa, bound for a Methodist Conference in Australia, was met in Auckland by Miss F. Ropeti and Miss L. Ropeti, now resident in Auckland.

Mrs. N. Herman and Mrs. T. Cameron arrived from Aitutaki.

Mr. Pati NAso, of Nofoalii, returned to W. Samoa from holiday in NZ. 75 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y M A R C H . 1953

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News Of The Small-Ships

Artemise Destroyed

Artemise, better known outside French Oceania under her former lame of New Golden Hind, was :ompletely destroyed by fire at laroia atoll, Tuamotu (where Koniki raft finished its drift) on Febuary 15. The news came by radio rom Makemo atoll, where captain tnd crew called en route home to *apeete.

The 80-ft schooner was originally lilt for Mr. H, R. Jenkins, of Auckmd, as a yacht—the last schooner ) be built by the late Charlie ailey, of Auckland—and she did )me Islands cruising immediately World War 11. She was squired by NZ Public Works Deartment; and was sold in 1948 for lout £Stg 3,750. In 1950 she and le yacht Lady Stirling, were sold • Messrs. Rusden and Baker, preint owners of the Philante 11. hey were reported to have reeved SUS 26,000 of Marshall Aid mds (about £Stg9,3oo) from the rench Government on behalf of sr latest owners, Herve & Cie, of apeete. As an indication of fluctu- ;ing ship values it is interesting aw to learn that Artemise (as she as re-named last year) was haired for 3i million francs (about >tg19,500) and her cargo at time loss for an additional n milm francs (£StgB,34o).

New Vessel For Mervin

A vessel purchased in France for . Mervin, Tahiti ship-owner, was Casablanca en route to th icific, in February. She will be ed in the French Oceania interand trade, and is due in Papeete April.

Philante Ii Moves On

Messrs. Rusden and Baker’s motor ssel Philante II sailed for Pago igo and Apia from Papeete, Febary 9, ending persistent rumours at the Fairmile would probably purchased by the French Governmt in Tahiti.

Islands Ships Coming?

After delay in Auckland, Mr. D. C.

Brown and Mr. R. P. Archer, of Rarotonga, departed for Europe late in February, to purchase a vessel there for use in the Cook Islands.

Mr. Lew Graham and Mr. Cec.

Harrison, of Auckland, were planning to leave for Europe to locate another vessel, suitable for Islanuo trade. They were former joint owners of the vessels Karoro, Alexander and Scot, all known in the South-Central Pacific.

Money No Object

Tahiti reports that tobacco baron Reynolds, transferring his luxury motor-cruiser White Heron from Tahiti to West Indian waters per Caledonien, paid 157,000 francs (about £B7O Stg.) freight, and 145,000 francs for the special cradle, built in Papeete, required for the trans-shipment.

Ai Sokula In Auckland

Island Transport Ltd. (WRC’s) Steam Tug Ai Sokula arrived at Auckland from Suva on February 25 for drydocking and survey. Captain H. Simpson was in command with Captain A. M. Harvey (the Co’s Marine Superintendent) also aboard.

Captain Harvey recently was appointed to this new position in Suva following services as Carpenters’ port captain at Vancouver.

Ai Sokula was originally built in Japan in 1940 and captured in New Guinea waters in 1944 —then under the name of Hotu Maru. She became the Manam, was assigned to Artemise (formerly New Golden Hind), sported burnt to the waterline at aroia atoll, Tuamotu. 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Pyrenees Veteran In Tahiti

In Tahiti of late is Mr. Arthur Michel, survivor of the British barque Pyrenees, whose end may b« recalled by the older hands.

In 1902, Pyrenees, afire at sea was beached at Rikitea, Gamble; Islands. There the fire was extinguished and the wreck eventualh sold for $2OO to Captain I. E. Thayer of San Francisco, who refitted her renamed her Mangareva, and toot her to sea again for many a yea] until lost by enemy actior in World War I.

Arthur Michel returned to Tahit: in 1941 as Quartermaster in th( Mariposa —and married Miss Rosa Raoulx. Now they have a young daughter. His impressions of Tahiti- The only thing that hasn’t changec in 50 years is the climate!

Peer Gy Nt In Noumea

The 30-ft ketch Peer Gynt was in Noumea at the end of February and her young Sydney owners Norman Rome and Sylvia Roach were painting and overhauling her preparatory to venturing further east. They left the Australian coast in mid-October after a severe buffeting (in which Miss Roach suffered greatly from mal de mer ) and their announced intention is to be married in America—when they get there.

Lahara, Mr. Des Ashton’s 33-foot sloop, again proved her worth in January, when she made the return Tasman crossing from Mangonui, 78 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Rosita Found

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Aptain Lindstrom Returns

Captain E. D. Lindstrom, of the fPHC marine staff formerly taster of Kiakia in the Gilbert & Uice Group—was in Auckland in ebruary en route to Fiji, with Mrs. indstrom and their two daughters, fter spending leave in Sweden. He cpected to rejoin Kiakia.

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Mr. Ken Windsor, formerly of ew Golden Hind, Ranui, Rawhiti, id Siren, who arrived in Auckland i February per the yacht Corsair 'ter serving for some time in a ydney trawler, was appointed adio Officer-Purser in the NZGS dui Pomare in succession to Mr. tior Gundersen, who retired from te sea.

Jate For Southern Cross

Mr. A. S. Lewis joined the Mellesian Mission vessel Southern r oss in February during survey in ickland, replacing Mr. R. A. oods as Chief Officer. Mr. Woods, all known in Island vessels over any years, plans to retire.

Mr. Lewis recently arrived in NZ ter 20 years on the China coast, e was interned by the Japanese Hongkong during the war, and om his normal 160 lbs dropped 90 lbs weight when released by e Royal Navy.

New Wphc Vessel Soon

The WPHC’s new auxiliary vessel, similar design to the Tongan )pra Board’s A’oniu, probably will launched from the Whippy yard Suva in March. Captain A. sckharn, lately of WPHC’s Tuvalu, 11 take command, his place in ivalu being taken by Captain P. Ward, formerly of the mission ip John Williams. Captain Ward is been away on leave.

Arine Light For Aitutaki

Phe Maui Pomare’s cargo, outward iund from Auckland in March, is expected to include the equipmt for an automatic marine light " Maina islet, at the south-west rner of the Aitutaki lagoon reef, issels from Rarotonga approach e main passage around Maina et. The Alexander was wrecked ere two years ago.

Aitutaki-Rarotonga Link?

Mr. Hugh Williams, owner-skipper of the converted yacht Inspire, lately in Papeete, may establish a regular passenger service between Aitutaki and Rarotonga to connect with the TEAL service. If agreement is reached with NZ Island Territories Department, TEAL, and the Cook Is. Administration, Mr.

Williams will build deck accommodation aboard Inspire for air passengers. Air passengers to and from Rarotonga now have to avail themselves of whatever transport offers, and frequently wait weeks at Aitutaki.

Southern Cross Away

AGAIN The Melanesian Mission vessel Southern Cross left Auckland in early March for Vila and Honiara, with stores, building materials and a dozen Mission passengers. She will call at Tikopia to pick up Professor J, Spillius, who has been doing anthropological research there for a year. Dr. Raymond Firth was with him until August.

Southern Cross will make trips to Vila and Honiara and return to Auckland in six months.

Plans for the next Southern Cross (Continued on page 81) 79 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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News of Cruising Yachts 71SITING yachtsmen at Papeete r have recently found themselves in trouble with the efficient ahiti Customs service.

First (as reported last month) was ill Howell, of Wanderer 11, who moved bonded ship-stores ashore ithout first filling in the necessary ;claration. There was clearly no tention to smuggle goods into the >untry, as Mr. Howell had obtained irbal permission to land the stores, owever, the letter of the law was )t complied with. Result: 3,000 ancs fine —about £2O Aust.

Next in trouble was Mr. Athol usden, charged with making a ,lse declaration about the value a movie projector which he united from Honolulu on his recent sit there in the Fairmile Philante . Customs declared the machine is worth double the declared Jue, and a fine of 5,000 francs was iposed. Mr. Rusden, denying the istoms valuation, then asked that i be charged duty on that valuam, rather than pay the fine. Duty is charged accordingly and the le (still imposed) was reduced to 0 francs.

Mr. Tom Hepworth, owner of 'thur Rogers, was also in trouble, iring a period of heavy weather me time ago his yacht, which was ichored near the Royal Tahitian )tel, Pirae dragged her moorings id narrowly escaped destruction file the owner and crew were sent. Informed of the danger, e pilot, Captain Bailly, proceeded all speed and towed the yacht safety. Then, says our Tahiti rrespondent, “Mr. Hepworth made howl when he found himself preited with a bill for 5,000 francs bout £3O) for use of tow-boat and )our involved.” The bill was later iuced to 3,000 francs—which jms very fair, when the yachtner might have had to meet a Ivage claim. * ♦ * Wanderer II has now passed to b sole ownership of Mr. Bill >well, according to advice from •hiti. His partner on the voyage >m England, Frank McNulty, has parted for Sydney (the yacht’s stination) by ship. (See earlier M’s). * ♦ ♦ Corsair, George Hunt’s steel cutter, rived in Auckland from Sydney, 1 Lord Howe, on February 19. ternate calms and gales were enintered. Sails suffered some mage, but the yacht appeared ic and span, with no trace of st —a tribute to the zinc-sprayed At least six Auckland cruising yachts are reportedly planning to head Islandwards soon—the 54-ft cutter Leda; the 30-ft Taurangi; the 38-ft Aloha; the 33-ft White Squall; the 29-ft Ghost, and the Bounty (which went to the Island two years ago). Another probable starter is Wakaya, recently back from Tonga.

Taurangi and Aloha were launched only this season. In addition, Corsair, from Sydney, and Te Rapunga, from Tasmania, will take off soon from the Islands, from Auckland.

Bill Murnan, of Seven Seas II (see last month) reports from Florida that the yacht Nellie Brush, with a crew of three young men, left there some time ago for Tahiti and other Islands ports. ♦ ♦ * Miru, the stout 48-foot ketch in which the Davis family, of Rarotonga, voyaged from New Zealand to Boston via Peru and Panama last year, is now for sale in Boston —reports Neil Arrow, one of the crew, who returned in February.

The yacht was formerly known on NZ coast and Cook Is. as Soubrette, and was built in Auckland in 1936.

Mr. Arrow plans to write a book on the Miru voyage. (See “Small Ships’ Radio Schedules” on another page.) A new lighthouse at Cape St.

George, at the southern end of New Ireland was completed during February, and went into operation. 81 *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Feb. 28.

FROM Rotuma in the north to Kadavu and Lau in the south, Fiji has broken out in a rash of Coronation celebration committees, planning events for the first week in June. It will be the Colony’s biggest celebration on record —until it is eclipsed by the arrival here of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on December 17.

A minor preliminary skirmish occurred when some people suggested that the Government might reduce the expenditure on Coronation celebrations to help meet the heavy bill for the Royal visit at the end of the year. This idea was turned down in a diplomatic official statement which pointed out that the Coronation will be celebrated in every corner of Fiji. (See page 82.) The event is being planned particularly to leave a lasting impression on the children. The two days’ Royal visit will be confined mainly to the Suva area and most children in the outside areas will not see the Queen. rERE are signs that many people in New Zealand and Australia would like to come to Suva to see the pageantry of the Fijian welcome to the first reigning British monarch to visit the South Pacific Islands. It can be said now, however, that few of them have a chance. Suva’s four post-hurricane hotels have already decided to close down on applications for accommodation in mid-December on the grounds that every inch of space will be taken up by people from the outside areas of Fiji.

Nobody knows what will be done about the thousands of Fijians who will come to Suva. But, in the light of Fiji’s history since Cession in 1874, the native race must have top priority in welcoming the Queen.

Elder R. A. Bigler, of the Mormon Church, Aitutaki, left there by air on holiday for his home at Salt Lake City, USA. 82 MARCH. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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PAPUA.—Port Moresby. NEW GUINEA.—Lae, Rabaul. (Incorporated In New South Wales with limited liability.) A scholarship for £l5O a year for ree years has been awarded by the ikistan Government to Miss alima Husn Bano, of Rewa, Fiji, order to complete a three-year irsing course at the Jinnah Cenal Hospital, at Karachi. She left ji in January.

Work has begun on the construction of a new airstrip at the northern end of Taveuni, Fiji, and it should be in use in about six months.

Miss Helen Lees, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Lees of Kokopo, New Guinea, recently returned to NG after a trip abroad. She will marry Mr. Gordon Munro, of Sydney in March.

Top row: Commnader J. T. A. O’Neill; s ship, the “Southern Cross”; and Mr.

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George Hunt’s “Corsair” cleared Sydney February 1 for Lord Howe, Auckland d Polynesia. Crew—left to right; Ken Windsor (well-known in the Islands), disgorge Hunt (remembered as British insul for a period in Papeete), American [?]b Magel, and Mrs. Hunt. 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y M A R C H . 1953

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From Our Own Correspondent HOLLANDIA, Feb. 3.

THE Netherlands Government has accepted the resignation o] the Governor of Dutch Nev Guinea, Mr. S. L. J. van Waardenburg.

Mr. van Waardenburg has servec three years as Governor, the firsi to be appointed to Netherlands Nev Guinea after the handing-over ol the Netherlands Indies to th( United States of Indonesia on December 27, 1949.

He has had no easy task. When up to that date, Dutch New Guinea was administered only to a verj limited extent, there then had t( be established a new and extensive administration.

Although his administration has often been criticised in recenl months, there is much on the credit side also. There was the establish-] ment of the three Advisory Councils for Dutch New Guinea, one to each division, in which native representatives sat together with Dutch officials and advisors.

The Governor’s resignation takei effect from April 1. Till then the administration will be in the hands of the head of the Department for Civil Affairs, Mr. N. Makkes.

Mr. van Waardenburg, with his wife, left New Guinea for Holland on January 13. His daughter, Mrs.

M. van Genderen followed them on February 1. For his services in this 1 country Queen Juliana bestowed on him the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands.

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At the Salemann-Sedgers wedding. Top eft—Left to right: Old-Timers Alan Corrigan, of Wewak; Tom Prince of Lindenhafen; Jack Sedgers; Greg Kent.

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Mr. Frank Ball, owner of the Ball Canning Co., of Oakland, Cal., and a frequent visitor to Tahiti for many years, died recently. Mr. and Mrs.

Ball were about to leave San Francisco on one of their regular trips to Tahiti, on the Thorsisle, when he collapsed and died. He had a wide circle of friends in Tahiti, Suva Grammar Boy Saves Father, Brother TAVUA, Feb. 13. ¥¥/’HEN Mr, Lyle Bean, Snr., who ▼ ? owns a farming property on the Rewa River, Fiji, and his two young sons were crayfishing on a reef near Nausori in early February, they accidentally stepped oif into deep water and were soon in difficulties.

Mr. Bean could not swim, but his elder son, Paul, held him up until they were both exhausted. Mr. Bean then told the boys to leave him and save themselves, but young Lyle, aged 15, and a pupil of Suva Grammar School, refused to do this and took command of the situation.

He told his father to lie on his back so that he could tow him to safety, and as Paul was also exhausted, got him to hang on to his (Lyle’s) belt. By this means he finally got them onto the beach, thereby saving their lives.

Paul had swallowed a lot of water and was admitted to Lautoka Hospital where he is recovering satisfactorily. Mr. Bean is back on his property and the hero of the occasion, Lyle, Jnr., is back at school in Suva.

Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Smith and family recently went from Auckland to join the teaching staff of Suva Grammar School. 86 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Papua Looks Fine to the MRA Delegates From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, Feb. 20. rHE four Papuans—believed to be the first to travel outside the— Pacific area—who attended a doral Re-armament Conference in Jevlon and India recently, have reurned to Papua. They are Mr. .lerari Dickson, Member of the jegislative Council; his wife, Mrs. fera Dickson; Mr. P. Anakapu, and iliss Alice Wedega, all from the Cwato area near Samarai.

Back home in Papua they said tow shocked they had been to see he poverty and hunger in evidence n India, and to see people who lever knew what it was to have nough to eat or a place to serve ,s home. All agreed that they were r ery glad that Papua was their lome, and they now knew what a leautiful country it is.

Mr. Dickson said that conditions a India had made him realise what lot Australia was doing for 'apuans, how fortunate the country ras, and what long patience Ausralia showed towards Papua.

Miss Wedega said she had found hat many educated Indians used heir knowledge only for their own dvancement and cared little for he less fortunate Indians. She ranted to make sure that when 'apuans were educated they were aught that knowledge must be used 3r Papua, not for themselves alone.

Iditorial Note On

Courtesy Titles

Our Port Moresby correspondent as asked us how we feel about the ew fashion of attaching the Engsh courtesy titles of Mr., Mrs., or liss to natives of Papua and New ruinea. We have hitherto been reactant to apply English titles to he Islanders, especially Fijians, 'olynesians, Fiji-Indians, and others, hese titles have no real significnce in the life and culture of these eople; and, until recent years vhen there has been an attempt -usually by well-meaning Aus- •alian or New Zealand newspapers -to graft them on) none wanted lem. Most Pacific native peoples ither have chiefly titles, or none t all, and are called by their given ames; and, in any event, they sually had sufficient native dignity ot to feel any lack in this regard.

However, one bows to the inevitble. “The moving finger writes,” ;c. If the Papuan and New Guinea atives feel that the English Mister” will help them, the Engsh “Mr.” they shall have.

Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bergstrand, ; BGD, Bulolo, NG, returned from tour of the United States, UK id the Continent in February. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L T M A R C H . 1953

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PAPUA Proxn Our Own Correspondent P. MORESBY, March 1.

MR. R. C. DOLBEY (of London and Borneo) and Mr. W. H.

Doughty (of Borneo) have again visited Papua to check on the progress of the new mangrove-bark factory being erected near Kikori, Mr. Dolbey is the managing-director of the New Guinea-Borneo Mangrove Co., Ltd., and Mr, W. H.

Doughty is the chief engineer and a director of the firm. Both are likewise executives of the parent company in Borneo which has been supplying the world markets with cutch for many years. Cutch is a mangrove bark extract used in tanning leather and as a dye and preservative for sailcloth. Those “rec Bails in the sunset” get their coloui from cutch.

Mr. Dolbey expects that the Kikori factory will be in productior by the end of this year. Five European homes for the staff have beer completed. These are really up-todate dwellings, complete with electricity and “all mod. cons.” in the shape of running water and sewerage. A new manager is now in charge of the Kikori undertaking— Mr. Cecil R. Fisher, formerly on the staff of the London Missionary Society in Kikori district. He replaces Mr, C. B. Cook, who resigned from the company.

The Rev. Trevor Shepherd, of the Methodist Mission, has been transferred to Vella Lavella, BSI, from Teop, Bougainville. The Rev. G. G.

Carter goes to Teop from Buin. The Rev. D. I. A. McDonald, with Mrs.

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Dr. G. E. Hoult, who had served for three years as medical and dental officer of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons, obtained his diploma of tropical medicine at Sydney University while on leave in 1952. 88 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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New Wharves and Airfields P. MORESBY, Feb. 20.

WHEN Rabaul finally gets its new wharf it will be a useful sort of structure, approximately 400 ft long, 40 ft wide, and with three approaches, each 20 ft wide and about 30 ft from the wharfhead to the foreshore. It is to be built by private contract and tenders will be called in March.

Reclamation will be done by the Works Department, and a cargoshed will be on portion of the reclaimed land, between wharfhead and foreshore. It is anticipated that the works will cost about £220,000 and (write it in block print!) the money is already in hand for this job.

Meanwhile, the pontoon wharf will be patched, re-patched, and generally coaxed into staying more or less in one piece until the first half of the new wharf (right alongside) is completed.

The Territories wharves-position is improving. Lae is sitting snug and tight with its first-in-the-field wharf; Samarai has almost forgotten what the old wharf looked like and the new one has lost that freshfrom-the-contractor shine; the Madang wharf is just about finished; Kavieng sees the shape of thingsto-come in two approaches and a wharfhead coming up; while Port Moresby now has at least the outline of half of the new wharf. At Rabaul —well, the detailed engineering plans and the cash are a good step on the way.

Jackson’S Airport

Some £250,000 is to be spent on improving the Jackson Airfield at Port Moresby. There are to be new terminal buildings—replacing the makeshift wartime structures —a Butler hangar, and a new taxiway md apron leading to the new terminal site.

The central runway, out of use since the war, will be reconditioned.

A.t present, the two outside strips are in use—one a Marsden matting runway with old metal strips and :he other a sealed gravel strip used mly by light aircraft. All three were put down in the haste which characterised most wartime jobs in ;he Territory, and were never designed for steady long-term use.

Soon there will be only the grass- ?rown half-moon revetment bays to remind visitors they are using an aerodrome where the skies were mce crowded with fighters, mobbers md transports, which carried no guarantee of a return trip. That is, Df course, unless the curiosity of :he peacetime air-traveller should ;ake him to the simple dignified memorial to the late Squadron Leader Jackson after whom the field is named. This is located at the site of the new terminal, and is still awaiting the long-deferred dedication service, rumoured to be taking place within the next month or so.

A Plan For Producing

Tea In N. Guinea?

AFTER spending six weeks in New Guinea, examining teagrowing possibilities for the Minister for Territories, Australia, Mr. G. K. Newton told newspaper reporters that small quantities of tea were being grown now in New Guinea Highlands; that there were large areas of flat land suitable for plantations; and that commercial tea-growing there was a definite possibility. Mr. Newton has been a tea-grower in Ceylon for 35 years.

There is nothing new in his announcement. It is common knowledge that tea can be grown well in New Guinea. What those interested want to know is: (a) Is it intended to encourage Europeans to grow tea in NG? (b) If so, where and when and how is the land to be made available? (c) As tea must be produced by a cheap and highlytrained labour force, where is the trained labour force to come from?

Mr. and Mrs. J. Kerrigan, and family, of Suva, returned home in February after leave in New Zealand. 89 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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RABAUL, Feb. 25.

THERE has been some public snarling in the Rabaul section of New Guinea lately over High Authority’s failure to get on with certain promised works. High Authority has said that the work will proceed; everyone is poised and ready; but nothing more happens.

Some remarks at the February meeting of the Advisory Council in Rabaul, by Acting Regional Works Officer S. Dixon were illuminating, therefore. Here, in part, is Mr.

Dixon’s statement: “You frequently hear that the Government Secretary has stated that funds are available when, in fact, they are not available to commence work.

“The procedure is rather involved.

The Federal Treasurer makes certain bulk funds available to the Administration to carry out the running of this Territory. The majority of the funds are allocated to Works, usually unspecified or very loosely specified.

“The procedure then is that a project is decided upon and the Administration—in a matter of Works—usually asks the Department of Works to give an estimate of the cost of these works.

“However, when a firm estimate is arrived at, even though the!

Administration is very keen to start that work, the Administration, unfprtunately (and probably veryi rightly) is not the final arbiter of: the matter at all. The matter then is referred to the Committee of Co-ordination that works in Canberra. This Committee decides what! work can be undertaken for the whole of the Commonwealth of Australia, and only that Committee can decide, for example, that the Tunnel Hill work at Rabaul may be carried out, and that it can be done this financial year without interfering with work that they have] already agreed to have done. ‘The bloke who pays the piper calls the : tune.’ ”

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Some Memories, By Fred

BUNTING IN the early days of British New Guinea (now Papua) many murders of traders and pearlers were committed around the groups by the treacherous natives.

One of the worst crimes was at Joannet Island, close to Sudest.

The boat’s owner, Captain Crone, was below in his diving suit when a swarm of natives attacked the boat, killed the native crew and cut the diver’s pipeline.

It took weeks to get a message to Port Moresby. The Governor, Sir William Macgregor, in his yacht Merrie England, hastened to the spot, to arrest the murderers. When he arrived, he found anchored close by a lugger owned by a well-known trader. Nicholas Minster, a Greek, who traded all around those parts.

A dinghy approached the Merrie England and Minster boarded the Government yacht, and met the Governor. He gave details of how he had punished the culprits a few days previously. He had crept up into the mountains on a moonlight night, and came on to the native village where a notorious chief lived, and had found him sitting among a crowd of natives. He shot the chief, and men, women and children ran in all directions and soon the village was deserted.

Nicholas then returned back to his lugger to await the Governor.

The Governor coldly asked him the reason for his call. Nicholas promptly capsized his bag on deck, and out rolled the native chief’s head.

“There, sir, is the chief murderer’s head,” said Minster.

The Governor had the other natives arrested by his Papuan police, and taken to Port Moresby for trial.

Brooker Island, which was not far away from Joannet, had a very bad record. The natives there were most treacherous, and nearly killed Minster when he was anchored there on a trading visit.

They came out one night, and crept stealthily on to his deck and murdered some of his crew. Nicholas was sleeping on deck, and had no time to get his rifle from below.

So he jumped overboard and was not seen, and hung on to the rudder of his boat. The natives rifled his goods right and left. Then he 91 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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But those primitive savages were not the only ones to commit horrible crimes. Only a few years ago, early in World War 11, there was a tragic event on Moturina Island, near Brooker Island.

It will be remembered that, in 1942, just before the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japs arrived and occupied most of the archipelagoes eastwards of Samarai. They occupied Calados Lagoon.

A young half-caste planter, well liked, named George Burfoot, had a trading post on Moturina and, unaware that the Japs were there, he went to Moturina in his boat.

The Japs immediately seized him. I suppose they imagined he had come there to spy upon them.

Anyway, they murdered him in a way too horrible to describe. From what I know, I would just as soon appeal to the savages of Minster’s time, as to the “little gentlemen from the land of the chrysanthemum.”

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Lae (NG) townsfolk have decided to build a kindergarten for the community’s fast-increasing population of pre-school youngsters. A well-organised and well-supported “Popular Girl” contest raised £1,650 for the scheme, and incidentally put the “Popular Girl” crown on the head of Miss Margaret Harford, the Qantas choice for this honour. Her votes alone contributed £472 to the kindergarten.

Mr. Theo Riaz, a well-known resident of Fiji, visited Nadarivatu, Vatukoula and Tavua in early February to say farewell to friends before leaving for the United States for medical treatment.

Mrs. Jim Fyfe, headmistress of the CSR Co. school at Rarawai, Fiji, returned home in early February after six weeks’ holiday in Australia. 92 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Events In Papua-New Guinea

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Growing Our Own Rice

THE Tenders and Disposals Board of Papua-N. Guinea has sold by tender 331 bags of rice from the Mekeo area to Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd., Port Moresby, at £72/10/- a ton.

Quite a bit of Territory-grown rice is being sold on the New Guinea side also, although in comparatively small lots.

These sales may be the acorns from which mighty oaks will grow —perhaps oaks large enough eventually to knock the expensive importation of Australian rice right DUt of Territory economy.

Aerial Mapping Of Dutch

Border Region

Two RAAF Mosquito aircraft from an Air Force Photographic Reconnaissance unit are taking aerial photographs of the Territory side Df the Dutch border, from which naps will be compiled. Before they return to Australia the Mosquitoes vill also do an aerial photographic survey of the area around the Popondetta-Tufi region, in the Northern District. This is connected with the CSIRO natural resources survey, to be carried out in that area next July, August and September.

Creighton Re-Trial

At the re-trial of William Mervyn Creighton by a jury at Madang, New Guinea, in early February, a verdict of “not guilty” was returned, and Creighton was discharged by Mr. Justice Bignold. Creighton was charged with a capital assault on a native woman, and successfully appealed to the High Court in Sydney for re-trial after he had been convicted by a jury at his first trial.

Unused Surplus Native

LAND The Central District Advisory Council brought up the question of mused surplus native land when it net in February in Port Moresby.

Members referred to individual areas of native land which were not used by the owners even for hunting, but on which all offers of sale Dr lease have been declined.

The Rev. D. Ure said he thought the native owners were not aware Df just what leasehold meant, and probably they would be willing to iease surplus land if they realised that they would retain ownership and derive rental from it.

The view was expressed by other nembers that it would be difficult if not impossible to develop the Ferritory properly unless some of ihese lands could be brought into Droduction. They said that so long is it was idle there was no justification for building roads into such areas; but if some sections could be leased and made productive then road work would be justified. Once roads were built and access given to markets and ports, the natives themselves could develop adjoining areas.

The problem will be considered again at the Council’s next meeting.

Samarai Has Telephones

Running round the island with messages can now cease in Samarai; for the town has a telephone system which opened early in February with 43 subscribers. The exchange can handle 60 lines at present; but, if necessary, it can be equipped to service 80 subscribers.

. Traffic Booklet

No stretch of imagination is needed to believe that many of the native drivers in Papua-New Guinea have never heard of traffic rules.

And those who, by some odd chance, have heard about them, rarely heed them. Now the police can put a neat little traffic booklet in their unskilled hands and give them a choice of reading all about the rules of the road in English, Police Motu and Pidgin. Of course, the snag in this is that many of them cannot read in any language.

But it is a move in the right direction. And a little study of these booklets would do some European drivers a lot of good, too. 93 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Probably the real reason is that the lerritory has not many roads.

Air Transport

Papuan Air Transport, a busy little airways outfit formed by Messrs. Jackson and Goosens a few months ago, has increased its twoalane fleet to a trio, with the addition of an Anson. Now, when travelling by PTA, there is a choice of i Wacko, a Fox Moth or an Anson.

Ihe company operates out of Port Moresby.

Gibbes Sepik Airways, which struck a tough run of luck in difficulties in getting Norseman re- Dlacement parts, now has two Norsemans back in service, and a ;hird should be ready soon. The Norseman shifts a lot of cargo for i light plane. The unfortunate double in getting parts has added ;o the recent acute shortage of light jlanes in the Territory.

Oil Search Extended

Australasian Petroleum Co., which already has spent about £10,000,000 >n an unsuccessful search for oil in Papua, now has filed applications :or permits to prospect for petroeum over a further area of 4,200 square miles, and another zone of ?,910 square miles, both near the Dutch border. The Company has also lodged applications for the variation and partial cancellation of certain permits it already holds.

If these applications are granted the Company will hold petroleum prospecting rights over a total area of 17,904 square miles.

Simultaneously, the Allied Island Exploration Co. has applied for prospecting permits for two new areas, one of 6,660 square miles, and the other 1,190 square miles.

Both are likewise in the region of the Dutch border. If granted, these will boost the lEC total permit area to 17,335 square miles.

The APC and the lEC have a Canadian contract party making an aerial magnetometer survey over country near the Dutch border. The survey is being conducted from a Catalina flown by the Canadian party specially from Canada for this work. Half the survey was complete in mid-February.

A Club For Fliers

An organising committee to form an Aero Club includes: Chairman, A. R. Murray; Secretary, P. Grimshaw; Treasurer, E. Dawson; General members, J. Samuel, G. L. Bugg, D. Sullivan and T. Parsons. The Club will seek to buy three Tiger Moth planes. The club will have the benefit of Mr. T. Drury’s experience with the Newcastle Aero Club.

He is Superintendent of Air Navigation here. Civil Aviation Department probably will make the renovated Jackson Field passenger lounge available to the Club when the permanent passenger lounge is built.

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ADMINISTRATION Dr. E. M. Ojala (Deputy Chairman of the South Pacific Research Council) after an 18 days’ tour of 95 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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He was impressed by» the keenness of various native communities to share in the economic development of the country, and their willingness to work harder to benefit by economic development. He was impressed by the pioneer and research work being done by the Agricultural, Forestry and Health Departments.

He thought the results being achieved at Maprik and Kokoda Education centres indicated the possible pattern of native education for Papua and New Guinea.

Charge Of Murder

Two members of the Royal Papuan and New Guinea Constabularly— Su’Yae and Kelembe—both Sepik natives—were committed for trial at Port Moresby on February 18 on a charge of murder. They are accused of having murdered a Goilala native on December 19 when a District Services patrol was travelling from Tapini to Ononghe. At the time, the accused were members of the patrol in charge of District Magistrate Tolhurst.

NG Scholarship Winner THE New Guinea Memorial Scholarship (Queensland Division) was this year awarded to Robert Courtice Bird. His sister, Rosemary, won the award in 1951.

The Trustees of the Fund announced a special scholarship this year to lan Higgins, who obtained higher marks than Robert but who was ruled ineligible for the scholarship.

Western Samoa will soon have a second lawyer whose arrival is eagerly awaited, as legal assistance has not readily been available for years. He is Mr. R. P. Phillips, Samoan-born, who has recently gained his Bachelor of Laws degree at Victoria College, Wellington. He will take up private law practice in Apia. 96 MARCH. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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RABAUL, Feb. 20.

THERE was a strong flavour of the . pre-1942’s (usually called the “Befores”) about the wedding Rabaul on February 14 of iss Jacqueline (“Jack”) Sedgers, »unger daughter of Mr. J. B. dgers (manager of the New Guinea ). Ltd.) to Dr. Constantin Saleann. “JBS” has been 25 years in jw Guinea (except for the Jap inrruption), and he always has been popular; so that on this occasion his pre-war friends rallied around to such a degree that they actually provided the majority of the guests.

It was a very happy event. Those “Behinds” who talk so much about the Old Hands’ oppression of the poor natives should have been there to observe Kiali and Munder —the two most important people in the gathering after the bride and bridegroom. Those two New Guinea boys became Jack Sedgers’ houseservants in 1927 and—except for the war—they have never left him. They had to remain behind at the evacuation; and Mr. Sedgers began to seek for them as soon as he returned in 1945. Old Hands still describe with fervour the scene when he eventually found them in Lae.

Kiali and Munder were prominent figures as they superintended the wedding festivities. As one guest described it, “they almost burst with pride.”

The ceremony took place in the Rabaul Methodist Church, the Rev.

Ben Chenoweth officiating. Mrs.

Jill Back, sister of the bride, was Matron-of-Honour, and Dr. Soczynski was best man.

Later, at the reception held at the Sedgers’ home, “Befores” monopolised the time-honoured toasts, most of them (like Mr.

Chenoweth) having personally Dr. and Mrs. Salemann (nee Sedgers) [?]ting the cake at the wedding retion. The bride’s sister (Mrs. Back) [?]d father at the left.

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Guests included the District Commissioner and Mrs. J. K. McCarthy; Mr. J. A. Corrigan (Wewak), Mr.

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Morinda Leaves For

JAPAN rE old Burns Philp steamer Morinda, which was sold last year and has been tied up in the Parramatta River, Sydney, for months, left under her own steam for Yokohama in mid-February, Morinda was put up for sale when the Malaita went on the Sydney- Norfolk Island-New Hebrides-BSI- New Guinea run and was sold to the Henderson-Trippe Shipping Co., of Manila, Philippines, for the ridiculous sum of £3,100.

On her way to Japan, Morinda will load scrap in the Pacific. As she is going under her own steam, her newest owners are being held to ransom by the Australian Seamen’s Union. Under conditions which the Union has been able to force on owners, Australian vessels bought overseas must be manned by Australian crews on their delivery voyage, at Australian rates of pay, plus 20 per cent, for a minimum of two months, plus repatriation rights.

Morinda will carry 34 of an Australian crew on her voyage to Japan.

As the price paid for Morinda was so low, her new owners can no doubt afford this Australian Union bushranging. Most overseas owners buying ships in Australia these days, get over the difficulty by sending tugs to tow the old ships home.

It is officially notified that Mr.

John T. Wheelock, United States Vice-Consul in Noumea, now has consular jurisdiction in Solomons ind Gilbert and Ellice. Mr. Wheelock is United States consular repreientative for the whole of the South Pacific Islands, most of which le visits periodically.

After three years of building for ;he Methodist Foreign Mission Board building on Buka and Bougainville, Mr. G. H. J. Yearbury las returned to NZ. He built the Jon Alley Memorial Hospital (comnemorating a missionary victim of he Montevideo Maru war tragedy) ,nd a mission station on Buka “As You Were” In Suva’s Sea Baths Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Feb. 10.

THE Battle of the Suva Sea Baths will probably end quite amicably with everything pretty much as it was in the beginning.

Some Indians tried to make common cause with Fijians over the issue, but the Fijians, who had stood aloof from the start, showed that they had every intention of remaining aloof. The result has been that for the first time on record Indians wrote to the press declaring that the whole trouble might have been a mistake. It was openly admitted that the rank and file Indians had not the slightest desire to push anybody out of the baths, and that the few Indian swimmers would be content if the derelict No. 2 bath (abandoned many years ago because agitators demanded the European bath or nothing) were rehabilitated for Indian use, and — most startling contention of all — it was added that the whole uproar was due to “trouble-makers who would be better occupied investigating the desperate house-shortage instead of waging inter-racial wars over trivialities.”

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In Western Samoa

From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Feb. 25.

MEMBERS of the Samoan Public Service have been granted salary increases, ranging from £5 to £5O per annum, and retrospective to July 1, 1952. The increases are to compensate for the increased cost of living.

European and Samoan members of the Legislative Assembly have nominated their representatives on the newly-established Executive Council—Hon. G. F. D. Betham as European member, and Hons.

Tualaulelei, Te’o Leutele and Mataia as Samoan members. Besides these, there will be 3 official members appointed by the High Commissioner, and two Fautua.

The new Samoa College at Vaivase, near Apia, has enrolled 227 pupils for the primer classes. The initial roll of the secondary classes is 50.

Some 150 were enrolled in the primer classes at Malifa and Ifiifi Government schools. The latter are reserved for Apia children, while the College enrols only children from outside districts who are boarders.

A former employee of the Government-owned NZ Reparation Estates, John Parsons, 53, was charged in the High Court with theft (10 charges) obtaining money under false pretences (3 charges) and forgery (1 charge), while in charge of the NZRE lumber shed at Apia. He was found guilty on 4 charges of theft and fined £l3O.

A remarkable scene was enacted when, at the end of the trial, the wife of the accused knelt before the Chief Judge and pleaded for mercy for her husband.

West Samoa’s representatives at South Pacific Conference in April are Hons. Tualaulelei Mauri and Te’o Satele Leutele (MLA), and Gatoloai Peseta Sio and Maualaivao Sunu (Fono of Faipule). They depart for Noumea, via Suva, by plane, on April 4.

Mr. John Cramer-Roberts, manager of the Dolphin Mine, Vatukoula, Fiji, returned home on the Matua on February 10, after some weeks in New Zealand. Mrs. Cramer- Roberts is holidaying in Victoria. 100 MARCH. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Suva Radio Smallships Schedules Supplementary to the information given in various issues of PIM last year, we now have the following from the Radio Inspector, Suva, which will be of interest to yachts and smallships with radiotelephone only.

Suva Post Office, VRO-4, maintains loudspeaker watch on 6300 kc/s, answering on the same frequency, between 0000- 0100 GMT, 0200-0400 GMT, and from 2000-2400 GMT. Weather forecasts are broadcast on the frequency at 0230 and 2130 GMT, with the traffic list. A close watch for vessels is maintained for about half an hour thereafter —then ordinary loudspeaker watch is resumed.

Vessels equipped with 6280 kc/s should doubtless be heard at the traffic-list times when an operator tones the band.

If and when the Weather Office issues a preliminary hurricane warning, weather broadcasts will be made on the hour and half hour, every half hour, day and night, until the warning has been cancelled.

The Fiji Islands now have a very thorough radio hurricane-warning system.

In addition to the above, the Suva broadcast station on 930 kc/s gives its routine weather forecasts and remains on the air when an alert is issued. This station will soon also have a short-wave outlet— currently under test. Then, across the Island, Nadi broadcasts weather on voice at 0915 GMT on 7530 kc/s regularly—and ajt frequent intervals when an alert is issued.

Smallships, through the 6300 kc/s voice channel, may, for a nominal charge, obtain a special forecast from the Suva meteorological office at any time—though this would not be necessary under normal circumstances.

Yachts unable to transmit on 6300 kc/s, may, in case of extreme emergency, use one or other of the inter-island net channels, though these must not normally be used by shipping. Suva listens on 3885/4000/7770/8000 kc/s. Replies to calls on the first two channels are made on 5090 kc/s and to the second two on 5142 kc/s. It may happen that a yacht, not equipped for 6300 kc/s, can use one of the above four frequencies in extreme emergency. Watch is maintained as per 6300 kc/s loudspeaker watch schedules.

Wewak Greets A Liner

MADANG, March 2.

T'HE port of Wewak (far north- A west of New Guinea) had its first visit from a large ship since the war, on February 23, The 4,000-tons passenger-cargo ship Malekula called and left 80 tons, and loaded 20 tons of general cargo. A surf-boat carrying 88 bags of peanuts, grown by the Rural Progress Society of Dagua, capsized; but the peanuts were later recovered, laid on the beach to dry, and shipped to Madang, on a smaller craft.

It is unfertunate for Wewak that there is no safe anchorange, even for small ships, and the handling □f cargo and passengers is often hazardous. ~ Mr. Fred Godson, of Port Moresby, has gone to Ceylon, on a few weeks’ holiday.

Norfolk Island Notes

Prom Our Own Correspondent NORFOLK ISLAND, Feb. 28.

THE New Administrator, Brigadier Norman, with his family, arrived on February 26. He was made welcome at a social gathering organised by local folk.

Residents are disappointed because Norfolk is being left out of the Queen’s Australian itinerary. The Advisory Council is pressing for a few hours stop-over on the way from New Zealand to Australia, as this would delight our loyal residents and Her Majesty would also find pleasure in visiting the Island in which Queen Victoria took so much interest.

The Anglican and Methodist ministers are joining forces in weekly prayer meetings to be held in the Methodist Hall— it is felt that the population, particularly the younger members, need a revival of faith.

While not detracting from the power of prayer, your correspondent feels that what the youth of Norfolk Island wants is a visit from a forceful YMCA leader, or someone who will train leaders on the Island so that boxing, basketball, cricket, etc., will be revived in a good Christian atmosphere. A Cadet corps might also be started and the now disused rifle range got going again. This is something that might interest our new Administrator, a young and keen military man.

Mr. Morris Young, of Pitcairn Island, who became ill on the Island, was picked up by the freighter Port Halifax in response to a radio call, and brought to Auckland in mid- February for medical treatment. 101 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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(From Our Own Correspondent) P. MORESBY, Feb. 25.

WAYS of assisting and stimulating the mining industry were considered by the Special Mining Panel set up by the Administrator at its second and final meeting on February 23.

Miners agreed with the Panel that a financial advance to prospectors, possibly on a “pound for pound” basis, would encourage individuals to continue working on promising areas. Alternatively, it was suggested that perhaps up to 80% of the money already spent by the prospector on opening up an area could be advanced to continue work on the field. Advances would be made after the “show” had been inspected by a geologist and an engineer and recommended as being worth further development.

Experienced miners said there were good areas in Papua worth investigation and more prospecting effort; but mostly the total expenditure needed was beyond individuals’ resources. They needed a cash advance after they had put in a considerable amount of their own money.

Another suggestion was that the Administration should acquire two portable drills—one for Papua and another for New Guinea—which could be loaned or hired out to prospectors.

An Assay office in the Mines Department, and a display of ore samples, would be of value.

The desirability of exclusive prospecting rights being granted to individuals for a limited period on fixed areas was discussed.

Mr. O. P. Blanden (chairman of the Panel and Mining Warden for the Morobe District) urged the formation of a Miners’ Association to act on behalf of miners and prospectors in much the same way as the Planters’ Associations act for plantation owners.

Recommendations will go in a report by the Panel to the Administrator.

“A Long Boat Trip”

P. MORESBY, Feb. 25. r[E District Commissioner at Daru, Mr. F. A. Bensted, left during February on what is called “a long boat trip.” His destination, however, is not Britain and the Coronation ceremonies, but an inspection trip to Kiunga, far up the Fly River and one of the most isolated patrol posts in Papua.

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Famous ‘Characters’ of Tahiti American Writer’s Recollections MR. CHARLES BROWN, Junior, an American writer who has been living in Raiatea, French Oceania, for many years, wrote a private letter a year ago in which he revived some memories of people he has met in Tahiti. The following are extracts: rHITI has produced some famous characters. Three of them are dead: Lovina, Lulu Spitz, and Bill Bambridge, who were unique, and who will live in memory as long as man remembers the period in which they lived.

All of them made Tahiti as happy a place—aye, a happier place—as one could find the world round, because of their having lived on it.

One cannot talk of the Tahiti of their time without talking of them.

In fact, Tahiti would not have been the same if they had not lived on it.

One, Lovina, was a lovable hostess, the most lovable in the vast South Sea; another, Bill Bambridge, was the Prince of Entertainers; and the third, Papa Lulu, was the protector of the “little people” of Tahiti.

I never knew Lovina; she was dead when I arrived on Tahiti in November, 1919, three months after my discharge as an ambulance driver in the French Army. But I did know Papa Lulu as a man who had the courage of his convictions.

Bill Bambridge amused me very much; and I am never going to forget him. Even more than the Prince of Entertainers, he was the Prince of Good Fellows —sometimes, too good for his own good.

I add Oscar Nordman to my list of Tahiti’s famous characters. Men and women throughout French Oceania will remember him for his life adventures and for the jolly way in which he told of them.

In life, he is his own hero. And part of his life he has already bestowed on his granddaughters—by naming them after the ships on which he served as a steward in his youth.

I wish Oscar Nordman would write for PIM a story about the practical jokes he has perpetrated on Tahiti —for example, the story of the fisherman and the mermaid.

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He told the credulous inhabitants of Papeete that as a mermaid could not live in the blazing sunlight of a tropical lagoon, the fisherman, who had carried her into a cave where the sun’s rays never penetrated, was going to bring her over to Papeete shortly after sundown —to present to a high official of French Oceania for a mistress!

And sure enough, at sundown the embankment along Papeete’s waterfront was crowded with the citizens of Papeete—waiting for the fisherman to arrive with the mermaid!

And, my version of the story went on to say, when the stars were beginning to swim like silver fish in the blue bowl of heaven, and the fisherman and the mermaid had not arrived, everybody wondered if a high chief of Moorea had cheated the high official out of the fisherman’s discovery. And they all cried, as they did whenever they were perplexed, “Ask Oscar, he knows!” 1 REMEMBER Oscar’s summing up of the character of that old South Sea shellback who was as hard as shell: Thomas Erskine Bunkley. “He was wealthy and very well known; but few followed his body to burial in Papeete.”

Years ago, in early 1920, I met him over a rum punch in the old Cercle Bougainville, hard by Papeete lagoon. I had come to Tahiti to gather story material for short stories for Adventure Magazine.

When Bunkley learned that T was a writer, he drawled across his rum punch at me, the while Henry McDonald, another scoundrel, tittered over his rum, some of his incredible stories. For example, he described his battle with an octopus up in the Tuamotus. “Don’t call me a liar when I tell you that that damn octopus had its tentacles wrapped around the ship. . .”

Henry McDonald was a scoundrel made to order for a young writer, such as I was when I arrived on Papeete beach.

I spent several evenings with him, at the Cercle Bougainville and the old Annexe on Papeete beach, listening to him and making mental notes, which I afterwards transferred into several note-books, of his dealings on the beaches of French Oceania.

And out in the sweet, kind land of Tautira, where I lived, through the month of February, 1920, I wrote a ten thousand word story, “The Fourth Boy,” around Henry Mc- Donald and his nefarious practices as a supercargo and trader in the Tuamotus. A little one-armed Tahitian boy was the hero of this story.

“The Fourth Boy” was published in Adventure Magazine. A copy of the magazine found its way to Penrhyn Island, where a friend of Henry McDonald read it; he sent the magazine to McDonald, who, after reading it in Tahiti, was so angry that he wanted to go out and pull up all the trees along 104 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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But when I did come back, in )22, he had cooled off; in fact, I link that he was somewhat proud f the scoundrelly Henry McDonald lat I had created. For when he let me in Lulu Spitz’s curio store, e said to me, a smile on his face, Brown, why did you do it?”

I never got much copy out of [cDonald when he was sober. But nee he had a lot of rum-punches i him, he would open up and tell dventure after adventure, all of lem sordid, and all of them typical f Henry McDonald. He even told ie the stories about himself that rederick O’Brien incorporated in AHiite Shadows in the South Sea.”

McDonald had it in for O’Brien.

Hien O’Brien returned to Tahiti l 1920, to gather material and lotographs for his Tahiti and [oorea book, “Mystic Isles of the luth Sea,” McDonald went one ‘ternoon to where O’Brien was livig in Papeete and called for him ) come out into the street so that 3 could “soak him on the jaw.” ’Brien stayed indoors. After that, ; always kept shy of McDonald.

One morning, I met McDonald at ie Cercle Bougainville. He had )t yet had his eye-opener. I inted him to have a drink. He asked ,e what I was going to drink, hen I told him that I should drink lemonade, he jumped up from ie table and stalked out, swearing that he did not want “to drirjk with a kid who was not yet dry behind the ears!”

It was a long time before McDonald took a drink with me; and then only with some others in the party. Then I looked Henry in the face and yelled, “The kid who is not yet dry behind the ears is drinking rum—if anybody wants to know.”

Papua’s New Brewery INSTEAD of building another brewery in New Guinea, as recently proposed, the directors of the new Pacific Brewery, in Papua, now plan to meet the Territories’ demand by doubling the Moresby plant. 105 ACI F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1953

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Rhino Beetles Reach Fiji The First is Intercepted SUVA, February 23.

ALIVE, female rhinoceros beetl was found under a hatch tarpaulin in the ship Thorsisl by a Fijian worker, Jonetau Rokoua, at Suva, on February 25 Another Fijian, Tomasi Cuvu, re cognised the beetle as the dreadet enemy of the copra industr throughout the South Pacific, ani took it to the Agriculture Depart ment.

This is the first known liv rhinoceros beetle to reach Fiji, ant the knowledgeable Tomasi has bee: A second live rhinoceros beetle was found in a house near Suva early in March. See page 14, given his full due of praise by Gov ernment officials, the press and th public.

The Thorsisle had come to Suv from Apia, where she had been load ing cocoa beans. The fact that a! overseas vessels in Apia Harbou lie well out from the shore show how serious is the danger of th accidental introduction of coconi] palm destroyer to Fiji.

Since the discovery of heav beetle infestation at Vavau, Tongj a year ago, strict precautions hav been taken in Fiji. As this is night-flying insect, all ships fror Samoa and Vavau are required t lie well out in the stream ever night they spend in Fiji ports. Ship ping interests have been restiv under the restrictions, but ther are now signs of a strong deman for the utmost precautions to b taken against the threat to one c Fiji’s three chief industries.

Officers of the Agriculture De partment have pointed out that i the beetle had not been intercepts aboard the Thorsisle, it could easil; have found its way onto the Suv wharf reclamation, with seriou consequences.

Thanks to a persistent campaign in press and radio, people in Fi: have become rhinoceros-beetle conscious. There is a tendency t bung all sorts of inoffensive but un familiar bugs into bottles, and seni them to Senior Entomologist B. / O’Connor. But the officials welcom this evidence of interest amon people of all races, and inquiries ar never dismissed as trivial. The polic has borne good fruit.

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Mr. Ralph Hart

Mr. Ralph Hart, long-time jsident of French Oceania, and of ritish stock, died at Papeete on ebruary 14, after a lengthy illness, is father, John Hart, was Amerim Vice-Consul in Papeete in 1891.

Ralph Hart, who had extensive roperty on Raiatea, is survived by 5 wife, Miriama, and a large numjr of children and grandchildren.

Mr. Timothy Denis Ryan

A definite link with Papua’s past was broken on January 31, when Mr. Timothy Denis Ryan, wellknown hotelkeeper in Port Moresby in the years between the Wars, died MiAo’Sli ln . terests in North Queensland and transferred to Port Moresby soon after World War I; and, in the long years during which he owned and managed the two hotels in the Papuan capital, he became known to all travellers in the South Pacific. 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1953

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Hon. Tofa Tomasi

The death occurred unexpectedly on February 9 of the Hon. Tofa Tomasi, aged 43. He was an outstanding leader of the Western Samoans, a valued adviser of the Government, and a successful business man.

He was the son of a German resident of Samoa, and was christened Thomas George Nauer, and well educated at the Marist School. As a German national, he was interned in New Zealand during World War 11, and during that time he studied accountancy and commercial law.

In 1946-47 he assumed Samoan status, and established himself as a merchant at Faleasiu; he was elected by the Samoans to the Assembly; and he soon assumed leadership, through his natural ability, his oratory and his sound knowledge of finance. He advocated an independent Samoan currency, and favoured the establishment of co-operative societies.

All classes, including the High Commissioner and the New Zealand Government, expressed their sorrow at his untimely death.

Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell

The death occurred in February, in Holbrook, Suffolk, England, at the age of 78, of Sir Cecil Hunte Rodwell, who was Governor of Fi, and High Commissioner for tli Western Pacific between 1918 an 1925. He held a high administrate post in South Africa for many yeai before being appointed to Fiji. (See also on Page 117) 108 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The ARRL program from VOA ations is now being transmitted the following times on Sundays MT: 1045 z, 1145 z, 1915 z.

The American FCC band-change oposals mentioned in January we been firmly rejected by 3RL and will not be pursued, cording to latest word. They lied for Ham bands to be diied into calling and working 3 tors.

Another ZK-I change: Mr. N. J. itchell of the ionisphere station ZK-I-BF —whom we believe was rely active, will return to ZL in arch. His replacement has not t been announced. teplacing Thor, ZK-I-AZ in the “Maui mare,” is Ken Windsor, already well >wn in the Cook Islands. He arrived m Sydney this month per yacht »rsair” —in time to collect the job. will be active under his present bile calll, ZL-I-OM—probably on CW y and on 7 mc/s mainly. He has decided whether he will apply for 2K call, but in any case will not be ssifiable as a DX Hound.

'oug. Cunnold, ZK-I-AB, expected to irn in March after vacation in ZL. i CW is his main stamping ground, believe. [ugh Hickling, formerly ZK-l-AT, ► returned to Rarotonga (not Mani this time) has not yet been heard Auckland, so has probably not iked under the XYL’s guard as yet. e Feb,). here’s a new call registered in Fiji— Broadbridge, VR3CS. The previous . mentioned briefly last month, were ’CP, Brian Duff, and VR2CR, Angus chell, both with the RNZAF at Laula Bay. Stan, VR2AS, is now on leave ZL.

REAK IN gives the following cur- - Hst of Canton boys: KB6AO, Bill ks; 6AQ, Takeo Sato; 6AW, Bill afuchi; 6AY, Fred Carpenter; and , Fumio Serikawa. The British eleit seems not to be represented at lent.

MATEUR RADIO lists VK-9-MT in deletions. No new calls reported from t area. We hope to have a current 1 list for next issue. By all reports 50 me. boys there have been very ve this summer, with frequent cons to VK2. VK’s 9FM and 9DB ap- • as the ring leaders.

Hawaii, KH6, is causing speculation amongst the card-hunters. With President Eisenhower promising Statehood to the Territory they’re wondering whether the Islands will join the mainland as a single country from the Ham radio point of view. Best get that KH6 card quickly—if you haven’t already got one! . _ .

North Pacific announcement; Saipafr .. . . , , .. calls will be issued from the group KG6SA-SZ, Tinian KG6TA-TZ, Car. lines KC6AA-ZZ and Marshalls KX6NAvv ~ . ~ , , .

XX, according to “Radio & Hobbies.”

Nauru, in the news last year when VR7AB caused some consternation (see Sept, notes), appears to be unrepresented at present. Stan Mayne, down from Suva, reports that VR7AB’s life, though sweet, was short. His cards must be as rare as any.

BERS-195, noting VK2ATT, T. Thatcher, Cable Station, Norfolk Is. listed in the latest American Call Book Magazine (now 39/6 per copy in Australia!!) asks: Why not VK9? We await the answer to that one from Mr. Thatcher!

The yacht, “Corsair,” bound Auckland from Sydney, with ZL-l-OM and a 1082 transmitter aboard, was listened for diligently on 7 mc/s. in Sydney, Auckland and the Islands, without success. Ken says there was plenty of what it takes in the antennae—and can only suppose the 40-odd foot vertical was 109 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1953

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“Australian DX-ers Calling” lately had change of schedule and now is heard 0400 Z and 0530 Z Sundays on 15.3 cs. at 0800 Z on 9.58/11.67A7 48 mcs., id at 134QfZ on 11.84 mcs. The proamme carries stray items of interest to •ms.

Guam boys heard working February 21 ported that the edge of a typhoon had »ssed that Island, giving 7 to 9 inches rain on the previous day.

Jur listening was restricted during ; month, but conditions generally >med very poor on 30 m., though maythey’re only resting, for a W-VE cont early in the month brought plenty sigs. Island stations heard were 16ADZ/AGE/F AB/GX/HL/QI, W6INQ/ IL (the first Midway station heard since s typhoon last year), KR6HW/JL, L6AV, VKIRG, VK9GM (Norfolk) on 7 s CW, ZM6AA. •atest news of departures or arrivals 1 general Ham items from all Islands irters will be appreciated, as also will ;gestions for improving this column.

Notes From Tonga

From Our Own Correspondent.

VAVA'U, TONGA.

FTER 31 years at the convent of the I Saicred Heart in Neiafu, Vava’u, Sister Mary Gemma of the Marist is. has been transferred to the vent at Ho’uma in Tongatapn. She been in charge of the convent school 1 will be greatly missed for her fine k and her never-failing kindness and erfulness. mong the new local residents is Mr. nke van der Moeln, originally of The herlands, who has come to Vava’u to in charge of the Tongan government erimental farm near ’Utul. uring the absence of the governor, the i. ’Ahomc’e, who with his wife is enng a leave in New Zealand, his place illed by Judge Feilo’akitau.

MP Sateki Tupou and his bride have i visiting relatives in Vava’u. TMP eki has only recently returned to the ;dom after an absence of some years, ing which time he worked as medical ser at Niue Island. Last year, after r ing Niue, he was at Central Medical 00l in Suva, where he took a postluate course in laboratory procedure, vas there he met his wife, Talahiva, was a popular member of the Suva gan colony. The couple will make their ic in Nuku’adofa where TMP Sateki be stationed at the Vaiola Hospital, r. and Mrs. David Wolffgram of Villa, a’u, recently became the parents of iughter, Salote Tataklama. hile her husband. Dr. Russell Raitt the Scripps Institution of Oceanoihy in La Jolla, California, was busy on the expedition ship, “Baird,” which explored the Tongan deep in December, Mrs.

Helen Raitt visited Vava’u, where she made a comprehensive study of Tongan customs and crafts. She is the head of a Californian purse and handbag company and was particularly interested in Tongan weaving techniques and made an interesting collection of Tongan mats and purses.

Mr. Kenneth Grove, minister in charge of the Wesleyan church of Vava’u, holidayed during December and January in Ha’apai and Nuku’a-lofa. In his absence, the church was in charge of the Rev.

Kaivai Heimuli.

Michael McKay, young son of President Fred. McKay of the Wesleyan church in Nuku’alofa, spent the school holidays in Vava’u as the guest of Dale and Allen Grove, sons of the Rev. K, D. Grove.

The Rev. Tamahori, newly-appointed Church of England minister to Tonga, ha« been in Vava’u for some weeks studying local conditions. With the departure of the Rev. Fred Bastian, present Anglian minister, for Samoa in March, Mr. Tamahori will be in charge of the Church of England church and school in Nukualofa and will have control of all Anglican congregations in Tonga.

TMP Lutui Fonua, who is in charge of Gnu Hospital in Neiafu, Vava’u, is enjoying six months’ leave in Fiji.

Medical services in Vava’u have been extended recently by the addition of three nurses to the staff of the Gnu Hospital.

All from Nuku’alofa, they are lluaia, theatre nurse, Male Fuka, ward nurse, and Luisa Manu, child welfare nurse..

Dr. Garland Hallman, who has been CMO in Nuku’alofa, for 18 months leaves Tonga in March. He and Mrs. Hallman and their three young children will sail for England. After attending the Coronation, the Hallmans will spend a year touring England and the Continent before they return to their permanent home in British Columbia. 111 CIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y M A R C H . 1953

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P. MORESBY, March 2.

THE Administrator lost no time in dealing with the situation created in recent weeks by attacks by natives upon white women and children. He said that, although nothing had happened to justify panic measures—such as the formation of vigilance committees of civilians—there was need for some special action. New measures would include: • More European police. • New laws to enable the police to deal more effectively with migrant (or non-resident) natives. • Closer supervision—by compelling them to use certain residential areas —of visiting natives, and the prompt removal of those considered undesirable.

The Administrator outlined these and other measures in a radio broadcast from Port Moresby on March 1. He made some important points. Too many white women were careless in their deportment and behaviour in the sight and hearing of natives. The conduct of too many white men towards native women was unsatisfactory, and tended to reduce the respect with which the natives should regard Europeans. Those who associated with natives were only a small minority, but they were doing great harm —and they actually encouraged native men to attack white women.

He gave a clear warning that the relations between white men and native women will be under closer police check in future.

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The Administrator gave the following figures to show native offences against European women in the Port Moresby area only: Steps are to be taken at once to jxamine the housing accommodaion of the native population in Port Moresby. The natives will be [rouped in various categories, rangng from those fully employed and loused, to those who are not emiloyed and inadequately housed. It 5 suspected that most of the trouble s caused by ‘transients.”

A Native Transit Depot for visitng natives will be provided immediately alongside the Native labour Compound at Konebada; here will be a canoe ferry service rom Ela Beach to this Depot, so here will be no excuse for transients 3 remain in the town unnecessarily; nd land will be sought for larger Lative labour lines for those emloyers whose present accommodaion is inadequate.

Native labourers in the town must arry written authority showing ientity and place of residence, fatives from outlying districts mst get a pass from their District •ffice before leaving, and must reort to the District Office on arrival i town; and there will be increased flephone equipment, etc., for the olice.

Mr. Elliott Smith, at present Dis- •ict Commissioner, Northern ivision, will be stationed in Port [oresby to be District Inspector nd to implement the foregoing lan so far as it affects District ervices.

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Frorr a Special Correspondent rE situation here is not as bad as has been suggested. But it definitely needs action; and the teasures now taken seem to meet quite well. Things are no worse ere than in any other community careless white and primitive ack.

New people here do not underand, and do silly things. For exnple, there was trouble with a lerema garden-boy. I wouldn’t ive a Kerema or a Mekeo if I was lid £5 a week to keep him on, ithout wages; Western Papuans ive never been safe house-boys, id before the war they were never en in houses where there were iropean women.

The Administrator could not ive made a better choice than liott Smith for the job of bringing the situation under control. He is a first-class chap on Papuans—he is known and respected and feared by every Papuan contemplating mischief in the Northern District, and his reputation has travelled far beyond Northern.

Another Documentary

THE producers of a recent New Zealand fiZm, Broken Barrier, Roger Mirams and John O’Shea, left Auckland on March 3 by TEAL to shoot scenes for a film on how the people of the Pacific live. They went first to Tahiti, where a crosssection of life in Papeete and on the outer islands will be filmed. On the return flight, further scenes will be shot in Fiji.

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PORT MORESBY’S new base hospital is to be built on Taurama Road, instead of on the Three- Mile hill site, as in the original plans.

The Lae Advisory Council, again urging the need for a new hospital, says that the present conditions for both patients and hospital staff are “intolerable.”

Both the Port Moresby Base Hospital and tho much-needed Lae Hospital are rated top priority in the Health Department estimates for the 1953-54 financial year.

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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Feb. 23.

THE indigenous Fijian people own about 3.500.000 acres of land About 2.000,000 acres is forested and practically all of this is rough steep mountain country. About hali of what remains—that is, approximately 750,000 acres—consists of pool land, and of the remaining 750,00 C acres about 300,000 acres are leased almost entirely to non-Fijians.

These figures, given in the annua! report of the Secretary for Fijiar Affairs (Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna) gc a long way towards disposing oi the legend, based largely on ignorance, that the Fijian people are sitting on enormous areas whicl ought to be thrown open to alier cultivators, regardless of whethei the aliens ruin the land in the same way as they have ruined so muct by all-out exploitation in the past The reference to the forested mountain country is of special interest in view of the warning giver by the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) against the reckless destruction of forest and its seque! of soil erosion and ultimately o] critically-reduced water supplies.

Sooner or later, the idea that ir the larger islands of Fiji there are almost unlimited acres for “development” will have to be abandoned.

Ratu Sir Lala states that the Fijian income from leased land is only about £60,000, or about £5 ar amre for good land; but the Fijiar income from the reserves is verj much more.

Regarding the Fijians’ use of theii land, the report states that: (1) The Fijians are practically the only banana-growers, with production valued at £130,000 a year, and they are anxious to raise their output to the capacity of the New Zealand market. (Lack of shipping and shortages of banana-cases are two of the factors which have hampered the banana export industry. In 195 S the shipping situation has improved but the case-shortage is still serious) . (2) The Fijians’ sugarcane cro* in 1951 reached 22,000 tons, valued at £66,000. Fijian growers have already planned to double or treble this tonnage. (3) Fijian-produced copra in 1951 totalled 20,000 tons, worth more than £1,000,000. This was owned by slightly more than 50,000 people in the copra-producing areas. The Fijians, the report adds, are enlarging and rejuvenating their coconui groves with the help and guidance of the Agriculture Department. (4) In the home market som( 114 march, ibss pacific islands monthly

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Fiji, a British Crown Colony, gave berally to the fund for the relief British flood victims. First donors ere a Fijian native and his wife, idians have given generously. The ;nd on February 25 was over £6OO the bulk of it from Europeans.

When Mr. F. H. Ferguson went to relieve Mr. G. H. Leopard as manager for the Union Steam Ship Co. in Rarotonga last January, one of the first persons he met on arrival was Mr. Bill Howden, former Resident Agent, Manihiki, and well-known resident of the Cooks. Comparing notes, they discovered that their last meeting had been aboard the trans-Pacific liner Tahiti back in August, 1930, when that ship went to the bottom 500 miles south of Rarotonga. Mr.

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Mr. Robert Roberts, District Administrator of Funafuti, Ellice Islands, arrived in Auckland early February on two months’ leave. Mr.

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Some Rabaul Notes

THE new Administration Sports Club got off to a good start. Its cricket team, under the leadership of District Officer J. J. Murphy, has an occasional win, and its three tennis teams look like holding their own in the 1953 competition. Social Organiser Miss Bruce and her Committee did such a grajnd job with the Cabaret on January 34 that a repeat performance is scheduled for Easter.

The engagement is announced of Rosemary, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. S.

Wildsmith, of Brisbane, to Alan, youngest son of Mr. and the late Mrs. O. C. McKic, of Sydney.

At the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Blackford, a small party gathered at the Kamarere Restaurant for a farewell dinner to Dr. and Mrs. Wilson, who are about to transfer to Port Moresby, where Dr. Wilson will be in charge of the Territory’s Surgical unit. Guests included the District Commissioner and Mrs. McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. N. Nisbett, Mr. M. Orken, Matron Hanlon and Sisters Jones and Richardson.

Rabau] Anglicans now look forward to a new St. George’s Church and Parish Hall. There is £2,0(00 in the Building Fund and more promised. An architect is busy with plans.

Mr. Hawnt has gone South for an extended holiday, to be spent mostly in Sydney and Melbourne.

Mrs. McKenzie, wife of Buka's wellknown planter, has gone South to Sydney, for a few' weeks’ holiday.

New Ireland News

From Our Own Correspondent KAVIENG, Feb. 9 The New Irelamd District Advisory Council met in Kavieng on February 7, to discuss, among other matters, the official delivery of mail to plantations along the East Coast Road.

Mr. W. Dolby of Kavieng, astounded residents and a Government Department by completing the erection of his attractive small bungalow in seven days. Mr. and Mrs. Dolby have now moved in.

Planters will be sorry to lose Mr.

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He leaves Kavieng shortly to take up another appointment with the Board.

Work on re-surfacing the East Coast Road is proceeding very slowly, due to heavy Northwest rain over the last month. 116 march. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

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Mrs. George, the oldest European Oman on Rarotonga, and a sident there longer than any other iropean, died on January 22.

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Topou Isaia, aged 79, died at mrhyn on January 31. He was e principal promoter of the rent LMS centenary celebrations, id was noted for his remarkable emory. During the celebrations ! named for the Resident Comissioner every missionary resident l Penrhyn from 1852 to the prent day. His passing was widely ourned in the Northern Cooks.

Mr. Tuaine Nicholas

Mr. Tuaine Nicholas, a very well town and respected resident of irotonga, died there after a period illness on February 3. He was ried at Ngatangia. He was, until :ently, an employee of the Cook lands Trading Co.

Mrs. Duncan Campbell

One of the oldest residents of marai, Papua, Mrs. Duncan mpbell, died on February 3, aged She went to the Territory 38 ars ago, and divided her time :ween Kuiaro (where her husband iducted a shipbuilding business) and Samara!, with her four daughters. She was a trained nurse, and often relieved at the Samara! Hospital when it was short-staffed. At the time of her death she was living with her daughter and son-in-law (Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Burrow) at Sariba Island, near Samarai. She is survived by her husband and four daughters—Nancye (Port Moresby), Grace (Mrs. F. L. Burrow), Kath (Mrs. P. Walke, of Samarai) and Alice (Mrs. A. H. Simpson, of Sydney) .

Mr. Ralph Albrecht, who has represented Mackay Kerry Pty., Ltd. in Papua, New Guinea, and the Solomons, will shortly settle down in Lae, New Guinea, as manager of the firm’s new branch there. Mr.

Keith C. Watkins, who was with Burns Philp & Co. at Salamaua, NG, pre-war, has joined the staff of Mackay Kerry in their new Sydney office as commercial manager and accountant. 117 &CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953 Deaths of Islands People (Continued from Page 108)

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Cable Address: “Rotunda,” Sydney »f another “blow,” the situation vould become very serious.

The island was barely adequate n area to support the existing »opulation under normal conditions, ind plans for the resettlement of a lumber of families are under conideration.

Quality Of Copra

The quality of much of the copra troduced in the Protectorate was ar from high by world standards, nd the problem of its improvement should seriously concern all arsons associated with the inustry, although some large proucers had already commenced the itroduction of hot-air driers.

There had been no new outbreaks f pests or diseases of coconuts, "ields in the formerly heavily blasted Amblypelta nut-fall areas of Guadalcanal had remained good.

Provision from Colonial Developlent and Welfare funds for the ppointment and working expenses f an Emtomologist for three years ave been approved. This is auglented by a proposed contribution ■om the Copra Board’s funds. Dr.

S. Phillips had accepted the ppointment of Entomologist and immenced duty in the Protectorate LSt July.

Buildings Needed

The Commissioner referred to the Honiara Hospital as a “serious reproach and a dismal reminder of the ineffectiveness of past effort.”

He said that a heavy building programme lay ahead of the Protectorate government in the next couple of years. In addition to reconstructing the hospital (cost £A106,000) 39 houses for Government staff and nursing sisters quarters were desperately needed and were, in fact, delaying the recruitment of staff needed for development schemes.

Buildings were required also for the air-radio installation at Henderson Field. In all, the building programme of the next two years was expected to cost some £A265,000, a large proportion of which would be met from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund.

Honiara V. Tulagi

He was well aware of the feeling among the mercantile community that it had been a mistake to abandon Tulagi in favour of Honiara. The natural superiority of Tulagi over Honiara as a harbour was obvious; but he believed that in the long-term view Honiara had the advantage. However, whatever the demerits and merits of Honiara, the capital had been established there, money had been spent there, and there the capital must remain.

He thought that all that could be 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953 THE SOLOMONS—from page 19.

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A considerable amount of cargo destined for Honiara is at present landed at Tulagi and ferried across to Honiara. Steps should be taken to alter this and money that should soon have had to be spent on Tulagi wharf —which is in an advanced state of disrepair—would be better spent in providing an efficient lighter service at Point Cruz so that all cargo for Honiara could be landed directly there.

At present, for financial reasons, there seemed no prospect of building a wharf at Honiara capable of accommodating large ocean-going vessels; but this was the goal to be aimed at ultimately.

Mineral Prospects

Some goldmining interests have investigated possibilities in BSIP in recent years but nothing has come of it. It was understood that the reluctance of these companies to commit themselves to enterprises in the Protectorate was not because of lack of promise in mineral area but rather because of the regulations and restrictions imposed by the mining laws of the country. All that, apparently, is now to be changed.

Mr. Stanley said that the Senior Geologist who has been engaged for the last three years in making an Interim geological survey of the Protectorate for the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund had produced a comprehensive report.

“It is important that prospecting, both by individual prospectors and the larger mining concerns, should beencouraged and the fullest available information will be furnished by the Mining Board to inquirers.

Aerial photographs are now available covering all islands of the Protectorate other than the Santa Cruz Group.”

Other Matters

He recommended a Standing Committee of the Advisory Council which he could consult from time to time, as problems of administration arose.

It was hoped that the introduction of over 40 Hereford heifers and one Zebu bull from Fiji, and two Hereford bulls from New Zealand, 'would form the basis of a beef-raising project at Hu.

Co-operative Officer J. D. Davies who returned from a study of cooperatives in the G and E Company, hoped to encourage coccoaproduction on a co-operative basis by the natives of Malaita.

Departmental Heads

Important statements on BSI matters of general interest were by J he Financial Secretary, (Mr. A. M. MacLeod Smith), Attorney-General (Mr. P. N. Dalton) Senior Medical Officer, (Dr. W H McDonaid) and Chief Secretary (Mr. R. j. Mmmtt). have been summarised and will be published in an early issue of the PIM. y Some Helpful Comment rE Council debated a wide variety of subjects.

Mr. L. F. Gill, trader and planter from the Western Solomons, warmly supported the Standing Committee proposal.

Mr. Gill sought information about the prospects of rice-growing in the Protectorate, the method of selection of members of the proposed Native Councils in the Districts, and any action being taken to check cargo pillaging. He advocated a saxation system which wouldl spread the incidence of taxation as evenly as possible, and the need to encourage investment of new capital.

Mr. S. Sitai (Native Member, Eastern Solomons) asked for an experienced Administrative Officer for Vanikoro, and to look after the people in the remote eastern islands.

Yen. Archdeacon H. V. C. Reynolds (Melanesian Mission) was glad to know that Central Hospital, Honiara, was among the first of the projected buildings.

He praised the Education Regulation, and hoped that a Teacher Training College, which was of prime importance, might soon be run in conjunction with the King George VI School for natives a 1 Auki, Malaita. He spoke of the value of a training establishmenl fo v agricultural cadets.

Mi'. W. G. Paia, 8.E.M., Native 120 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mr. G. H. Kuper, trader and anter, Honiara, suggested legislam to enforce compulsory plantg by everybody of at least one re of cocoa. This would be harsh, it for everyone’s good.

Mr. K. H. Dalrymple Hay said at the most important plans in md were the provision of port cilities at Honiara and the breedg of cattle at Hu.

Mr. Dethrdge (manager, Tenaru imbdr Company Ltd., Honiara) ferred to the Government’s ilding plans and to the urgent ed for the new Central Hospital. i viewed with dismay the prosed exorbitant levy of 3/- per D super feet of timber exported, lomons timber entered a most mpetitive market overseas, and ices must be kept low. Producn costs in the Protectorate left very small margin.

Dn March 6, in Namanula Hospi- Rabaul, NG, a daughter eborah Louise) was born to Mr. d Mrs. Gregory Kent, of Rabaul.

Australia’S Population

According to semi-official estimates, the population of Australia at the end of 1952 was about 8,650,000 —an increase of about li millions since the Thirties.

The population seems to be increasing by a little more than 2h per cent, per annum, or about 225,000 p.a. The following table, showing the approximate population of States and capitals, emphasises an extraordinary Australian characteristic —the size of the big cities in relation to country population; N.S.W. . 3,442,000 . Sydney . 1,650,000 Vic. . 2,350,000 . Melb. . 1,400,000 Q’land. . 1,250,000 . Bris. . 4*0,000 S.A. 750,000 . Adel. . 450,000 W.A. 606,000 . Perth . 330,000 Tas. 315.000 . Hob. 88,000 N.T. 16,000 . Dar. 8,500 Canberra! 25,000 . 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1953

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Lautoka (Fiji) Notes

Interest in being shown, particularly by the Indian community, in the forthcoming Town Council elections. It is understood that over a dozen Indians will contest the four seats. The European nominees are not yet known, but it is expected that the present Chairman of the Town Board, Mr. E. F. Corbet, will be Lautoka’s first elected mayor.

Preliminary borings for the new Lautoka wharf have gone down about 60 feet without reaching solid. But it is known that the adjacent wharf (belonging to the CSR Co.) is sitting on 70 feet piles. The Northwestern people are looking forward to the completion of this new wharf, which will make ?. considerable difference in the tonnage handled in Lautoka, and contribute to the expansion of the township.

One or two interested citizens are trying to compile a list of Indian blood donors. The response has been small, only about a dozen responding; and these volunteers have already been called upon at least twice each. There has been for some time a European blood donor group on call, and members have always responded, in many cases to give blood to Fijian and Indian emergency cases. The plan of getting Indian donors on a voluntary basis is not proving easy to explain; but a systematic campaign by several of their leaders, it is hoped, will educate the Indians to the idea.

Fijian Coach Boosts Promising Tongan Boxers SUVA, Mar. 8.

FIJI made a mistake by exporting a Fijian boxing coach to Tonga in 1947. Yesterday, a Tongan became the first non-Fijian to win the South Pacific heavyweight boxing championship.

In 1947, a high Tongan chief, Sivai Tupou, depressed at the constant failure of Tongan boxers whenever they came up against Fijians, invited the unbeaten b\ retired Fijian heavyweight chan pion, Daunibau, to Tonga as coac and trainer.

On March 7, 1953, Kitione Lav from Vavau, Tonga, knocked 01 the formidable Miliano, of Ba, Fr in the fifth round of a schedule 12-round title fight at Ba. Lave one of Daunibau’s star pupils.

Two more of Daunibau’s protege each 6 ft. 2 in. in height and weigl ing 14 st., recently arrived fro] Tonga in search of Fijian opp< nents. 122 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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KEEN student of things Pacific, Mr. A. J. Sheat of Auckland, NZ, tells us of a book he has covered in the Auckland Public rary. b was published last year in Loni by Robert Hale Ltd. and is led “Whale Hunt: A Narrative a Voyage-—By Nelson Cole Har- , harpooner in the ship Charles Morgan.”

Ir. Sheat writes: —“Nelson Cole wey cruised between New Zeai and the Equator in the years )-53. He was only 17 when he pooned his first whale off the st of NZ‘. His New Bedford iling ship was away from port four years—and that was his md voyage, as he had run away sea at the age of 12. He made more voyages and finally settled the Hawaiian Islands in 1864 sre he became a pioneer of the ar business. He died in Alaska 1900.

Anyone who understands seaiship or enjoys tales of the era vooden ships and iron men will i and re-read his tales of neariwreck in the Tonga Group; of air-breadth escape from drifting are when becalmed near a canil island in the Gilberts; of time it ashore among friendly lie of Rotuma; of efforts to get h provisions in the Fiji Group a time when boat crews were ly to figure on the Fiji menu. n or his four years of voyage and ing his life in numerous eniters with whales and other ards, young ‘Nelt’ Harvey reed $2OO when the ship reached r Bedford. rhe ship Charles W. Morgan is in existence 50 years after all crew have passed on. She was up in 1921 after 80 years of ve service and was berthed near ’ Bedford. n 1941, she was taken to the old ling port of Mystic, Connect! by the Marine Historical Assoon. There she lies in the river le the Marine Museum. The or to Mystic can see there the inal manuscript of ‘Whale it’ written in longhand by Nel- Cole Harvey some years after voyage in the Charles W. gan.

Japtain Harvey’s heirs presented original manuscript to the eum in 1944. It is remarkable it should remain intact all e years to be published 50 s after his death.

'erhaps some of the old ships of Pacific might have been kept marine museum at ports in the ;h Pacific. The whalers nlayed r part in the Pacific Islands, to ater followed by traders, misaries and flag-hoisters of all ons. They had courage, even iey had their faults.”

Native Bosun Goes To Gaol For Assault Pron? Our Own Correspondent MADANG, February 10.

BOKATAR, a native of Aitape and formerly bosun of the MV Marova, has been found guilty of assaulting Captain Thomas, master of the vessel, while on a voyage between Madang and Bogia.

He was sentenced to nine months in Lae gaol.

Captain Thomas, in January, laid charges against six members of his native crew, of which Bokatar was one. Four of the natives were sentenced to six weeks gaol by a District Magistrate, one was discharged and Bokatar was committed for trial at a higher court. 123 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Affling Character Of Fiji-Indian Problem

Mr. A. A. Ragg Appeals to British Parliament IR AMIE A. RAGG, that indomitable fighter for what he believes is the correct solution the Fiji-Indian problem—namely, aatriation —has prepared a monoaph on the subject of the Fijidians, and is submitting copies members of the British Parlia- ;nt, and the highest British icials.

Many people dismiss Mr. Ragg’s in with the remarks “impracticle,” “absurd”; but Mr. Ragg nes back with the simple propoion: “If you allow the Indians remain in Fiji, what are you ng to do with the native Fijians, om you are in honour bound to atect, under the Deed of Cesn?” t is a poser, to which no one ; has found even the semblance an answer. tfr. Ragg’s proposal is that all manent immigration from India 3 China should cease forthwith, 3 that Indians and Chinese mid be repatriated respectively the rate of 12,000 and 200 anally. His plan provides that the Up to mid-March, there had teen no official response to the ormal plea made by the Fiji legislative Council on December 6, that the British Government e asked to appoint a Commision, to inquire into the popuition problem in Fiji and advise the steps to be taken to nsure that the Colony will not nffer the effects of over-popuition. atriates should be sent away on astern of ballot, arranged accordto age groups (16 for males and for females) and families, and t they should be compensated property left behind. He argues t adequate safeguards could be yided against the economic colie of the Colony; and that, under new conditions now ruling in ia, the repatriated Indians ild not be at any serious disadtage. ccording to Mr. Ragg’s calculas, the crisis in Fiji cannot be r long delayed. The Indians, at 000, are now 15,000 in excess of Fijians; both the Fijian and Chinese communities also are easing rapidly; and there is only tal of a million acres of producland in Fiji. He points out that the Fijians are a warrior ?, and even now are showing e impatience at the possibility ; they, the indigenous people of archipelago, are in danger of ig sacrificed to political expeicy. jcause the problem is apparently »nd any simple solution, and officialdom would be very glad to put it away and forget it, the stubborn Mr. Ragg is fulfilling a useful purpose.

His plan may or may not be a solution; but while he remains on the job we may not ignore the fact that, if a great racial tragedy is to be avoided, some solution must be found.

Moreover, Mr. Ragg’s monograph contains a useful history of the problem, from the time that the CSR Co. began to bring in the Indian labourers to establish the sugar industry. Its sequence of events places the blame squarely upon the shoulders of past Governors, who must have seen the thing developing, and who neglected or failed to make the British Government appreciate the danger.

Another Plan: Indians Should Forget India A FORMER resident of Southeast Asia, who has much experience of Indians and Indonesians, and who has lived in Fiji for a year, an dhad a good deal of association with Indians and Fijians in Fiji, has made the following observations on our recent article: “Fiji’s Population Problems Handed to Britain” (Dec. PIM).

If the Indian people of Fiji wish do make a future happy home in Fiji they should:— (a) Abandon the Indian flag, hoisted on every occasion possible, and mostly without the British flag thus ignoring international rules. (b) Abandon their ties with India, beginning by sending home the representative of the Indian Government and his staff. (c) Pay a proportionate income tax.

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Millaud-Teissier Wedding AN interesting wedding took place at the Church of St. Michael, Papara, Tahiti, on January 31, when Mademoiselle Daniele Teissier, eldest daughter of Madame and Monsieur Raoul Teissier, of Faaa, was married to Monsieur Sylvain Millaud, third son of Madame and Monsieur Jules Millaud, of Atimaono.

Both bride and groom are from well-known Tahiti families.

The Fiji Scholarship for 1953 has been awarded to Miss Ruth Delbridge, a former pupil of the Suva Girls’ Grammar School. Miss Delbridge will take an Arts course at Melbourne University.

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Miss Stinson’s design, which shows a Fiji river scene, with a banana tree prominent in the foreground, will be a lid stamp. As shown elsewhere, Miss Stinson has also won a Solomon Islands stamp designs prize. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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The Laloki country and the wet season did their share in making the jungle exercise realistic, and certain houseboys had a lot of hard scrubbing and scrubbing on Monday morning when boots and uniforms were turned in for cleaning.

Lae’s “A” Company was next in action, carrying out their exercise the following week-end. Twenty five of Lae’s PNGVR stalwarts dul; rounded up three elusive enenr customers’ and came through th patrol with a tactics record as gooi as that of Port Moresby.

Rabaul is next on the list. Thes jungle exercises are based on th training given British Army troop in Malaya for action against bandits bandits.

Mr. C. D. Bates has returned t( his old command at Madang, NG after a spell at District Servid Headquarters in Moresby as Firs Assistant Dorector. He is again Dis trict Commissioner for Madang.

Mr. John Paul McGrath, aged 56 of Townsville, died from injurie he received early in March, whei he fell from a job on which he wa employed as a carpenter, 30 feel onto a concrete floor. Mr. McGrath discharged from the AIF afte World War I, went to New Guinei in 1921, and managed a copn plantation. He was there unti 1943, when the family was drivei out by the Jap invasion. He i survived by his widow, one daughte (Mrs. F. Snell) and a son (Briai McGrath).

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IT is noted in Australian Commonwealth records that the Australian Agricultural Council, meeting in Canberra in April, 1952. “Considered that Papua and New Guinea could contribute significantly to export income’’; and it set the following targets: It was not apparent, from the lis of gentlemen who constructed th Council, that there was one mai present who knew anything ver much about the Territories. Th 1957-8 targets for cocoa and rubbe suggest that the gentlemen had no examined world markets lately. 1 128 march, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The “Ernebank”, which arrived at ibaul early in February, took away the st shipment of coconut oil ever to leave e Territory. She loaded 1,094 tons of I, 500 tons of copra and 320 tons of conut meal for the United Kingdom.

Rabaul Medical Officer R. K. Wilson s been agreeably surprised at the reirkabiy quick recovery made by the ir native patients who have recently dergone the Thoracoplasty operation Tuberculosis. Mr. Wilson says the oracoplasty operation is r*. cure, and not undertaken merely to give relief. luring the two days that Dr. Ojala, the South Pacific Commission, was in haul, he saw a good deal of the work the village councils. He attended a eting of the Rabaul Village Council, 1 followed the Vunamami cocoa project m the tree plantings to the newly It fermentary at Ngatur. Later, he ised the Adminstration officers and the Ives who had made such a good inning on what looks like becoming important commercial venture. labaul Town Advisory Council has ed the District Commissioner, Mr. J.

K. McCarthy, to arrange for an early visit from the Papua-New Guinea Town Planning Board to confer with the TAC and Chamber of Commerce with a view to preparing a Town Plan for Rabaul.

The value of Rabaul’s exports in the year ended June 30, 1952, was nearly £3,000,000. Imports were just over £3,500,000. About 60 per cent, of the trade of the Territory flows through Rabaul.

We are told that cocoa exports will be making themselves felt presently.

Some people are asking, why export?

Why not make the confections here? It would mean the importation of skilled labour as well as machinery; but is ot not vital to the defence of Australia that more Australians should be stationed here?

The building contractors, garage proprietors and shop-owners who, to date, have always been able to find a job for the Asiatic or half-caste, must soon be putting out the “House Full’’ sign. What is going to happen then? The Chinese certainly did not rush the suggestion that they be given 50 Hectares and left to it.

Asked what was the Chinese reaction to the offer, Mr. C. H. Meen, member of New Britain’s District Council, said they were keen enough, but lacked capital. 129 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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ST. LUKE’S Anglican Church at Laucala Bay, Suva, was completed on March 7, and stands as a monument to co-operation and personal self-sacrifice among people of a very small community.

The picturesque and beautifully finished little church, built of limestone, strikes an essentially English note in its tropical setting. It has been built by the parishioners themselves in 21 years of voluntary spare-time work.

Rev. Dr. G. R. Hemming, who has been the principal force behind the job, conducted the first service, which was broadcast. Previously he had built a church in the Solomons, and carried his enthusiasm back to Fiji, where he enlisted the services of Anglicans at Laucala Bay and of several parisioners of the Holy Trinity Cathedral at Suva.

Examples of the voluntary work which has gone into the furnishing of the new church are the laying of 900 blocks of native woods for the parquet floor of the sanctuary; the panelling of the east wall with yaka wood, donated by Mr. W. E. Goodsir, by Mr. C. Stinson, who also made the first stained-glass window ever produced in Fiji; the altar, made and presented by Mr. K.

Garnett in memory of his father; the altar covering made by Mrs.

H. S. Sabben and altar cloths presented by Mrs. J. A. Garnett and Misses G, Morrison and D.

Mune; the altar furnishings (bookrest, candlesticks and Cross) made by Dr. Hemming of dilo wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

Women members of the church made the sanctuary carpet (8 ft. by 6 ft.) in 1 ft. squares which were formed into the complete carpet by Mrs. Hemming. The timber for the pews was provided by Mr L C. Bentley, and Mr. S. Beeby oaid for their construction, together with the lectern, prayer-desk and hymnboard. The lectern and prayerdesk were completed in time for their consecration by the Archbishop of York during his visit to Fiji m 1951.

The church roof, 70 years old came from the demolished procathedral, and the framework was built by Mr. A. E. Kennard. Frenchpolishing of the panelling was done by Mr. E. S. Hales, and Mr G Larsen was the architect who supervised the building.

Until now Anglican services at Laucala Bay have been held at the house of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. who also put many hours of work into the building of the church.

The foundation-stone was laid by the Bishop in Polynesia (Rt. Rev.

L. S. Kempthorne) in 1951, and the church will be dedicated on May 2 and 3.

Raleigh Out-Done

fITHEY seem to be looking after JL their bridegrooms in the Northern Cooks these days, if Manihiki's most fashionable February wedding is correctly reported in the Cook Islands official press.

The report says that when Miss Mania Teokotai, daughter of a leading resident, was married to John Kaitara, over 100 yards of dress material was laid along the roadway from the bride’s residence to the church for the bridegroom to walk on! 130 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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CN/1450 The Plight of the Solomon Islanders Letter to the Editor BITTER letters from old friends in the Solomons make me glad that I finally withdrew my invests and activities from that >enighted British Protectorate some rears ago. I should say that, in 3SI under to-day’s conditions, prirate enterprise is more heavily lugged than in any other Pacific territory.

Distributing trade is a Government monopoly. It started right iter the war, when the Government began buying curios from the tatives with American trade goods, nd selling the curios to the Amerians at a profit of from 100 to 00 per cent. Now it has become tie Government Trade Scheme.

Scheme” is right. It is reported hat the Scheme makes a profit f £60,000 per annum for the Govrnment; but still the Government i reaching out for more and more loney, to finance an Administraon that is so top-heavy it is fanistic.

Let me recount the taxes to-day, impared with pre-war, when conitions in the Solomons were at last tolerable.

Income Taxation —Pre-war; none, b-day, very heavy.

Residential Tax —Pre-war, £l.

To-day, £2.

Copra Export Tax —Pre-war, 5/to 7/6 per ton. To-day, about £6 per ton.

Shell —3o/- per ton. To-day, from £6 to £lB per ton, according to market price.

Timber —Now a high export tax.

My friends describe the waste in many places. Pre-war, small ships.

Government and private, were uusally repaired at Tulagi. Now there are no facilities at Tulagi, and the ships are sent to Suva or Sydney. Why?

The Government takes all and gives nothing. It is sheer exploita- 131 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1953

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P.O. Box 9, Beecroft, N.S.W., Australia. tion of private people, who have nd real voice in the Administration. 1 It is claimed that there is alsd exploitation of the natives. Take the case of Vanikoro. An Ausr tralian Company has the concession to cut the valuable kauri pine there] and it pays the Government royalty on same. It always was clearly understood that a portion of thid revenue would be passed on to the Vanikoro natives, as is done in other Territories. But the Government has collected very many of pounds from the Co., and has paid to the natives only £35 Aus, per family per year—or did up to 1951.

One reads a great deal here in Australia about what the South Pacific Commission is doing for the Islanders. Perhaps it could justify some of its heavy cost in exam-* ining the plight of the white Islanders in the Solomons —and those unfortunate black Islanders in Vanikoro.

I am, etc., EX-SOLOMONITE.

Sydney.

EDITOR’S NOTE—We belief that all our correspondent says is true. But maybe it would be wise to exercise patience a little longer What with the Cinderella condi-j tions of pre-1940: the Japanese inj vasion; and the queer policies imj posed by the British Socialist administration in 1946-51, the Solomon! have had a real hiding, in both an administrative and economic sense But a new set-up, with a new policy and a new team, has jus! taken over. We are encouraged to hope for changes.

Higher Bsi Postage

HONIARA, March 10.

AIR mail postage rates to and from the British Solomon Islands Protectorate have beeij increased. Rates from Australian territories (including P-NG) to the Protectorate are now 1/1 letter mai| (per half oz) and 8d for Air Letter forms.

A heavy surcharge is levied on BSI residents receiving insuffil ciently stamped mail.

The refusal of the New Guinea Administration to provide two barges to carry traffic between Lae and Labu on Sundays has caused much inconvenience to the Morobe residents. Wau Advisory Council has asked Lae and Bulolo comj munities to take common action with Wau in again asking for thi week-end barge service.

The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Mr. R. C. S Stanley, CMG), with Mrs. Stanley and Miss Stanley, left Honiara in the Solomons on MV Kurimarat on February 27 for Vila, New Hebrides. After carrying out a tour of the Southern New Hebrides the party was expected to return to Honiara about March 17. 132 march, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

SAUCES . . . Tomato SAUCES . Worcestershire . . . Tomato . . . Mustard . . .

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VINEGAR . . . Pure Malt PICKLES . . . Gherkins . . . Mustard . . . Cocktail Onions (Coloured and White) . . . Olives (Stuffed and Plain) JELLY CRYSTALS . . . Holbrooks . . . Whites FLAVOURING ESSENCES . . . Vanilla . . . Lemon

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CANNED GOODS . . . Spaghetti . . . Baked Beans . . .

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Minor Riot On Timber

ISLAND 44 Natives Sent to Gaol )N the Southern Solomons island of Vanikoro, at the kauri timber settlement, on Christmas •ay, there was a serious disturbnce r when a large party of Santa ruz labourers attacked two Euroean bush-bosses. The white men ere dragged from their huts and )lled on the ground, but not sriously injured.

The District Commissioner, astern Solomons, arrived in muary, held an inquiry lasting iree days, and then sentenced 44 mta Cruz labourers to terms in 101 ranging from 3 to 9 months, hey were put onto the Governent ship Kaurimarau, and taken the Government station at Kiri iri.

There was a disturbance on Vaniiro some two years ago, when 16 ;ef Islands natives went on strike r„higher wages. After two weeks ithout pay or rations, they remed work.

The Vanikoro Timber Co. have en working the kauri forests on e island for about 27 years, mostly th Santa Cruz and Reef Islands xmr. Until three years ago, these anders had an excellent reputation for good conduct and industry.

The removal of the Santa Cruz natives caused a labour crisis. A plane from Santo in January took six Fijians to Vanikoro —one assis= tant engineer, one carpenter, and four truck and tractor drivers.

Mr. A. Hayling went to the Reef Islands and recruited 25 natives. On his way back his boat ran onto a reef at Utupua. It got off eventually, taut when it was tied up at Vanikoro, it was found that the engine was very badly damaged. A native attendant had used benzine instead of diesel oil. 133 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Cars For Hire

DRIVE VOTE SEIF CARS—At your scrvice in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane. Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: B 3375.

Enquiries invited.

“COMING TO BRITAIN?” —1951/1952 8 to 18 hp. cars to Drive Yourself, from £35 to £5O monthly. Delivery anywhere, Southampton free. Special Winter terms.

Martins Selfdrive Service, High Street, Winchester, England.

ACCOMMODATION DR. AND MRS. H. L. ZIELE, New Zealanders, wish to announce they have opened their home, centrally situated in peaceful surroundings at Double Bay, for Pacific Islands and Interstate guests, for bed and breakfast. Laundry facilities; adjacent to excellent restaurants at Double Bay; 10 minutes from City.

Under the personal supervision of Mrs.

Ziele, 37 Manning Rd„ Double Bay.

Sydney. Phone: FM 2761.

BRANDON GUESTHOUSE, Randwlck, Sydney.—Only 3 miles from central Sydney, providing all the refinements and quiet comfort of a lovely home. Bright, well-furnished rooms, surrounded by lawns and gardens. Excellent breakfast served, and guests’ convenience studied in every way. Within easy reach of beaches, racecourse and close to tram and bus transport, hire car service available.

The highest standard of service at the most reasonable weekly and daily tariff.

Ask your Sydney friends to call and inspect. Brandon, 75 Wentworth St., Randwick, Sydney. Tel.: FX 2118.

PERSONAL MEMBER Wide World Brotherhood seeks to contact others resident in New Guinea and Pacific. Reply: A.J.S., C/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

WANTED We buy used POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS—send your accumulation by registered mail with price in dollars or we will make offer (no damaged specimens wanted). Also interested in CURIOS & NATIVE WARES.

Send samples or description and prices to;— OAKES & OAKES, Juliana St.. Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States of America, FOR SALE

Ex Naval G. P.V, Type Vessel

Length, 75ft; Breadth, 19ft. 6in.

Draft, 8 ft. 6 in. (loaded), Speed 8 knots; Cargo capacity, 50 tons In full survey and at presen operating on coastal cargo run Price and further particulars t< oona fide interested parties oi application to Box K 240, c/o Gordoi & Gotch, Brisbane, Queensland.

FOR SALE FAIRMILE.—BuiIt in N.Z. 1943, 2 skins.

Length, 112 ft.; beam 18 ft.; draught, 5 ft. 6 in. aft, 4 ft. 9 in. forward. Make of Engines: Cummins Diesel, 6 cylinder, each 200 h.p. Speed: 11 to 12 knots.

Hull copper sheathed. Requires repairs and for this reason the owner is prepared to accept a reasonable offer.

MOTOR CRUlSER.—Construction, kauri, built 1950. Length, 60 ft.; beam, 16 ft.; draught, 5 ft. Make of Engines; G.M.

Diesels, each 165 h.p. This boat is in first class order and is equipped with every modern convenience. Suitable for Island trading.

For price and details write to; A. Donovan, Shipbroker & Importer, 217 Victoria Arcade, Auckland, C. 1., New Zealand.

MOTOR VESSEL.—The Interior Department, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., is offering for sale as is, where is, to the highest bidder the M.V. “Elba” located at Port Apra, Guam, Mariana Islands. The “Elba” is 176 ft. long, 30 ft. beam, with approx. 17,000 cu. ft. capacity, powered by two G.M. Diesel engines. It was built in 1944 by Wheeler Shipbuilding Co., Whitestone, N.Y. Inspection can be arranged through N. C. Murphy, General Supply Officer, Agana, Guam. Bid invitations may be secured by addressing the Executive Officer, Office of Territories, Interior Dept., Washington 25, D.C., U.S.A., or the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory, Ft. Ruger, Territory of Hawaii. Sealed bids will be received until 9 a.m.. May 4, 1953, and will be opened at 10 a.m., May 5, 1953, in room 5421, Interior Dept., Washington, D.C.

SPARE PARTS.—Winches, power-take-offs for G.M.C., 6x6 Ford and Chev. Blitz Jeeps, all ex-Army vehicles. Reply by airmail to: J. Walsh, Box 3066, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

COLES Diesel and Petrol-Electric Mobile afid Lorry-Mounted Cranes, 2-5 tons; overhauled and passed to B. of T. specifications. Further particulars and photographs upon application. Chessington Salvage Co., Ltd., Church Lane, Chessington, Surrey, England. Telephone; Epsom 4026 (4 lines).

BOOKS BOOK BARGAINS.—Send for list of real bargains from 2/- upwards. State youi Interests, please. I also find out-of-print English Books. Mention “PIM.” Nearly 400 customers in the area where “PIM” circulates.—Philip Boulton, Bookseller, Westbury. Wilts. England.

Islands Souvenir

“Where The Trade Winds Blow,”

by R. w. Robson and Judy Tudor.— A collection of tales and sketches of the Pacific Islands, by PIM writers, R. W.

Robson and Judy Tudor; well bound and profusely illustrated. 175 pages. Price; 7/6 (8/3 posted or $l.OO U.S. currency).

From Steele’s Book Store, Suva, Fiji, or direct from the publishers, Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd., 247 George St., Sydney, N.S.W.

Positions Wanted

QUALIFIED SECRETARY.—Army Officer’s Widow, British, seeks position in South Pacific as Secretary/Housekeeper. Shorthand and typing good speed—at present Confidential Secretary to general manager oi large steel works. Seeks change; no encumbrances; pay own passage. Reply: Mrs, N. Gwynn, C/o The Indian Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Burnpur (West Bengal)] India.

AUSTRALIAN, 39 years, with 20 years theoretical and practical experience in electrical, radio receiving and transmitting fields, and refrigeration, desires a suitable working partnership or position in Papua- New Guinea or Islands. Accustomed to tropicaJl conditions. Has handled large staffs on both installations and main-i tenance. At present manager of Sydnev firm, but desires return to Island life.

Reply; J.A.W., C/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

YOUNG MAN, 27, well experienced in accountancy and managerial fields, wishes to obtain position in Islands. Permanency and prospects of advancement desired] Small amount of capital available] partnership position would be considered; Married accommodation necessary. Reply; “R.K.W.”, Box 3408, G.P.0.. Sydney.

BELGIAN, 25, single, Leaving Certificate, seeks permanent clerical position anywhere in Islands (take anything suitable). Ex-1 perienced commercial correspondence clerk, ex-Serviceman (commissioned officer); Speaks English, French, Dutch, Germans able teach French, Dutch. Airmail reply to: J. Rotsaert, YMCA, 183 Liverpool Sydney.

FRENCHMAN, aged 26, single, educated] bush experience and good general worker] diploma mechanic, speaks English and; French, requires a plantation position in the South Pacific. Reply to: “A.P.,” c/o Box 3408, G.P.0.. Sydney, N.S.W.

DANE, 28, single, wants plantation position in the Pacific Islands—previous experience: three years with rubber and coconuts in Malaya. Can leave Sydnea immediately. Reply to lb Helle-RasmussenJ C/- Bank of New South Wales, H. 0., Cnr. Wynyard & George Sts., Sydney. 1 SINGLE MAN, 36, seeks employment in] New Guinea or any of the Pacific Islands] Had experience of plantation life for 3 years in Sth. America (Brazil). By trade a builder, I am seeking a position in] connection with my trade of building, ana am prepared to enter into a contract for! three years. I am in sound physical condition —not subject to attacks of malaria. Reply: B. Birve, Bellview Hotel!

Ca4rns, Nth. Queensland, Australia.

SANITARIAN, late Instructor Demon-j strator Army School of Hygiene, seeks! permanent engagement contra to present! temporary duties, with object to settlecl residence in any part of Pacific. Con-1 siderable tropical and sub-tropical ex-J perience and practice of anti-malariall measures, fly and pest control; medical and field entomology. Compatible with! native labour in many aspects of field! work. Would be interested in any form! of Agricultural or Mission employment.l At present engaged T.N.G. Reply: MAL.,j C/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W. I 134 MARCH, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Boxer Puppies

FOR SALE Of imported championship stock —all registered with Victorian Kennel Club. Parents outstanding as guards and hunters under rough tropical conditions.

Available mid-April.

WRITE M. STEER, c/o Australasian Petroleum Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua

Books Worth Reading

AUSTRALIAN SEASHORES (Prof. W. J. Dakin).—Deals with one of the loveliest and most exciting areas of the whole earth —the seashore. Pounding surf, shifting sands, blazing sun and winter gales are a challenge to survival, yet living here are some of the most delicate and amazingly beautiful creatures in the animal kingdom. The study of the Australian seashore and its teeming life was a source of work and delight for the late Prof. Dakin and this work will remain a memorial to its author.

Profusely illustrated. £2/5/-. Post 1/3.

THE LAND OF BYAMEE (Keith McKeown).—A collection of folk tales and nature legends of the Australian Aborigine, so little known to the great majority. These fascinating stories enshrine the nature lore of a dying race and are genuine products of the aboriginal mind. 6/9 (board); 12/6 (cloth). Post Bd.

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Thornburgh College FOR BOYS ’Phone: Charters Towers, 164.

Blackheath College FOR GIRLS ’Phone: Charters Towers, 110.

Kindergarten to University Courses available: Academic, Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Science, Music and Art of Speech.

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News From The Cooks

larotonga’s expected isolation during ; absence on survey of the Maui majre, has been relieved by two visits a NZ Civil Aviation aircraft. It took plosives to Aitutaki, for deepening the idromc area, on its first flight, then rried out a survey of the radiovigational aids. It carried passengers, ills and urgent cajrgo to Rarotonga. fhe Cooks had an influenza epidemic January. Over 800 cases were reported 10 with pneumonia. dessrs. A. B. Donald & Co. have lerously donated a suitable radio eiver and the necessary extension loudsaker and cables to the Ka/rotonga latorium. lecause the Charlotte Donald, en route Papeete for her annual survey, was ced. by bad weather, to overcarry kahanga cargo to Penrhyn, several all, open sailing craft went from kahanga across the 25-miles open-sea isage to collect the goods. )r. T. T. Romans, has been appointed lef Medical Officer in the Cook Islands. has been on the staff of a public ipital in NZ.

'here has been considerable roadking activity on Atiu Island, access ds being built by the population from orchards to the alternative landings Totiko and Kona^onako. wenty thousand trees in the Government sery, Atiu, mainly Australian eucalypts I acacias, brought from NZ late in 1, are now 15 feet in height and will planted out in the reafforestation eme on Atiu as soon as the present 11 of very dry weather ends. Fowls, ks, and turkeys, imported to improve il strains, and add to the island’s Itry resources, are doing well at the chery, which is operated in conction with the experimental farm. arotonga Public Works concentrated improvements to the Takuvaine water ike (in the mountains at the back Avarua) during a dry spell in ruary. Water supply on Rarotonga become a serious problem. Fines are ig imposed on persons who leave taps ning. he position of Resident Agent, tiihiki Island, is vacant—advertised try £NZ4OO-500. An official interpreter lary £250-400) for Rarotonga is also ght. i February, the Rarotonga Land Court an re-investigation of the Title of mtapuatea, under direction from the ive Appellable Court. The land conicd is the compound of the Makea ki in Avarua, on which the Makea’s ice is situated. The block extends n the sea inland to the LMS Church ipound. The first palace was built on i land by Makea Pori in the 1830’s, sre is much interest in the cnfee. [r. Marama Nicholas has been selected lead the small Cook Islands military tingent to the Coronation. He held rank of Flight Sergeant in the RNZAF the end of the war. r. Stewart Kingan, commercial photopher of Rarotonga, recently made a es of photographic slides of erosion on otonga, for projection in the local itres, to instruct the people in the sets of de-forestation.

Pukapuka people have built a flatbottomed surf boat to carry three tons of copra and are taking it to Nassau Island for use in loading the inter-island vessels.

Example of Biological Control Last year the Senior Entomologist in Fiji, learning that the green vegetable bug (Nezara viridula) was doing extensive damage to vegetables on Pitcairn Island, offered to send a wasp parasite to Pitcairn.

The offer was accepted, and a consignment of the parasites was sent via New Zealand.

The Fiji official now has a letter from the Education Officer, Pitcairn, saying that the parasite has brought about such excellent control of the green vegetable bug that, although the Islanders usually have to spend many hours killing bugs each season, there have not been more than two dozen bugs found this year. 135 A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1953

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA (NOTE; Following are 1952 MOF prices.

The MOF contract rates for 1953 arc to be practically the same as in 1952.) Papua-NG.—Copra Marketing Board price: Main ports, Hot-air, £69/5/- per ton; FMS, £69/5/-; Smoked, £6B/5/-.

Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air, £9l; FMS. £9O/15/-; Smoked. £9O/2/6.

Australia has a 9 years’ UK contract (based on £Stg.s9/15/-, 1952).

Fiji.—At Suva and Levuka, 1952: Plantation Grade (60 points and over) £F6S/0/6 per ton; PMS (45-57»/ 2 points), £F64/15/-; Lower Grade £F6I/10/- min.

New Hebrides.—Recent quotation at 81 Metrop. francs kilo, c.i.f. Marseilles, (approx. £AIO4/10/-, long ton).

Tahiti.—Recent price for Papeete copra: Dry, 7.80 Pac. frs. kilo (£ASS/4/- long ton): Super dry, 8.20 Pac. frs. kilo (£ASB/11/- long ton).

COCOA. —Islands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on March 6 was £Stg.226 (£ A282/10/-) c.i.f. ton, Cont. ports.

N.G.— £ A 270 approx, per ton, in store, Sydney.

New Hebrides.—Recent sales in Sydney brought £ A 250 per ton, in store.

Samoa.—Sydney agents in March quoted Samoan cocoa at £Stg.24s (£A3O6/5/-) f.o.b. per ton. first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.—lslands prices ruling in March were; Papua-N.G.—No shipments received in Sydney lately. Last price was at 7/6 approx, per lb. (approx. £B4O per ton), which was abnormally high. Price is expected to level off at about 5/- per lb. (approx. £560 per ton).

New Caledonia.—Crop mainly exported to Prance. Marseilles price recently was equivalent to approximately £A64O per ton, ex wharf.

RUBBER.—Australian Rubber Pool quotation for March shipment.—Papua- NG: 21-27/64d Stg. per lb., c.i.f. Sydney (approx. 26-7/10d Aust.)—Papuan rubber is allowed in primage-free (10 per cent, from elsewhere). Singapore rate (used by Australian firms as basis for buying Papuan rubber), March 6; No. 1 grade RSS (sellers) spot 74%c lb., c.i.f. (approx 30d Aust. lb.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.): White Label 24/-; Yellow, 23/9; Green, 22/- per lb., c.i.f., Sydney.

Rice.—Rice shipped from Sydney to Islands was fixed last year (for the 1952- 1953 season), at £75 per ton, f.0.b., White, Unpolished, and Brown. (On plantation Papua-NG approx. £100.) New season’s (1953-1954) price expected early May DESICCATED COCONUT. Sydney agents quote Ceylon, 1/6-4/5 Stg. per lb. spot, delivered to store, Sydney (1/11 y 2 Aust. per lb.). New Guinea: 2/5 Vz lb. spot, delivered in store, Sydney.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed betwee; Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerda Co. (USA) for 1952-53: AA/A/B grade 85 cents lb. (£ABSO approx, per lon ton); C, 80c. lb. (£A800); D, 55c. It ( £ A 550); E, 40c. lb. (£A400); EE, 30c lb. (£A3OO) all c.i.f., New York. Coo Is.—American market firm at 35 cent US. per lb., f.o.b. Rarotonga. Producer currently receiving 1/8 lb. Aust. (appros £lB7 Aust. long ton).

TROCHUS SHELL.—There has bee little interest in shell in Sydney latelj Recent quotations are: 8.5.1., £AI3S pe ton; New Hebrides, £AIOO approx, pe ton; N.G., £AISO per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney agent recently quoted: Ist grade, £A2OO pe ton; 2nd grade, £AI4O per ton for 8.5. l shell.

London Prices

LONDON. Feb. 20. !

Copra, c.i.f., Continental ports, ton:- New Hebrides . .. 86,000 Metrop. franc (£AIIO/18/- approx, per ton) Tahiti 90,000 Metrop. franc (£ll6/2/6 approx, per ton) FM Straits, Feb.-Mch £Stg.B( „ (£ AlOB per ton) Ceylon, PMS Nomina Philippines, bulk US$23l (£A9B/11/6 approx, per ton) Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton; FM Straits, 2 1 /z% drums . . . £Stg. 11! (£AISO approx, per ton) Ceylon, bulk, resellers £ Stg.l2] (£AISO/10/- approx, per ton) Philippines, aflos* Nomina Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Nth. Con tinental ports.—Accra, February-April £ Stg.il/10/- ( £ A287/10/- approx. pel long ton).

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Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, AN2 BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji basis £lOO Fiji; Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO London; B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £ lOC NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF NZ, Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa; B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samoa- London, basis £lOO London: B, £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-.

Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £ ill; S. £llO.

Papua-Ng.—Commonwealth Bank

(branches Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Madang) and BANK OF NSW (Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £lOO.

BSL—COMMONWEALTH BANK (branch at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Australia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs, most valuable of the three franc groups In French Union, are used in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Oceania.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quotes (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 175 Pac. fr. to £stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $. and ln AuTtralia U (fy L the^SiS*, 1 Union House. 247 George Street. Sydney. (Telephone: BW 5037.) Wholly set up y y and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.. 29 Alberta Street. Sydney. (Telephone: MA 7101.)

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ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: in PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, J. R. ciav & Co. Ltd., W. R. Carpenter * Co. (Fiji) Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. Ltd., Suva.

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